That restroom bit is surprisingly emotional. Poor Pernille I don't understand why she entered the bathroom in the first place. Open the door, identify Victoria then close the door immediately and don't let Victoria get out. This was she could have limited her exposure considerably.
This last episode is perhaps the best. But it still demonstrates why I don't like this season as much as the previous one: they identified the villain, they hunted her down, they saved the world! Is it over? No, here's another villain behind the villain, another sub-group or mastermind. The writers repeated this several times during the season and it's pretty annoying actually. And now that's supposed to be just a mere cliffhanger in preparation for season 3. I disapprove.
Honestly I enjoyed this season more than the previous one. Good story, good characters developement, and this time terrorists are really terrorists, not people who pretend to be terrorists to take revenge on MC (I hated this thing in season 1!).
Riktigt bra avslut/final. Season 3, here we come...
Season 2 is a little worse than 1 ,but s2 finale is the best ep of the show.
Review by WardVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2023-10-10T14:42:20Z
I can't believe Saga would do that to Martin! No! No no no.
I enjoyed the season, but it's individual parts are better than the whole. I'm disappointed by the overall plot, character arcs and villains this season, and i'm disappointed in the side stories, which feel even less important than last season. The biggest disappointment was probably the Jens side plot. It was pretty good, like the dynamic between Jens and Martin, but i wanted so much more from that side plot.
And then the ending. Martin taking the risk to kill Jens? Even though he's still got a lot of kids to look after? Ehhh, the reasoning is iffy, but it kinda makes sense because of Martin's deterioration, but he had also been recovering through the season. And then the even more unrealistic moment, that of Saga turning him in? No no no. It's dramatic and entertaining, but i don't think it makes enough sense. What Martin did was wrong, and everyone knows it. But this isn't a black and white kinda thing. I was going to say Martin is a good man, but well, he kinda is and isn't. But he's not evil. And he's a good detective, and Jens did kill his son. So there's some understanding there. Along with him having a lot of kids to look after. And Saga just threw all that and her only friendship away for what? A little bit of justice. A bit of justice that didn't even mean that much. A bit of justice for Jens, really. No. I don't buy that plot.
They shit on Martin and Saga so much. Martin especially. At the end of the last season, we saw him get shit on so incredibly much, but at least at very end it looked kinda optimistic that he could get his life back together, to live a new and different kind of life, after having learned so many hard lessons of what he had been through. To become a good father and husband after failing so much. To resolve never to be a bad father or husband again because of the extreme things he went through. Along with Saga venturing into further exploring romance.
In this season, we start off with a lot of strange disconnects, but they are believable from the intentions of the writer, and it's partially made to make things more dramatic. Martin is broken and has been for a year. Saga split up with her love interest from last season. They even changed Saga's ringtone. She would never do that. And then they shit on Martin so much by him recovering his mind and will and family, only for them to be taken away again, both by being haunted by Jens again and Mette saying she didn't love him anymore. Then they shit on him even more by killing off his other potential love interest in a dumb albeit entertaining scene. They also shit on Saga throughout the season in her troubled relationship with her boyfriend, with it eventually not working out. All damn season the writer is shitting on these characters and i don't like it, and it distracts from the main detective plot, which isn't even that good.
In the individual episodes there's so many good scenes and moments, but overall, it's too disjointed, which becomes more prevalent later on as we investigate the inner workings of the members of a corporation for several episodes. Boring.
And then the ending. It's kind of believable because of how much Saga is strict for rules and the law. But she's been changing around that over the seasons, bending it more and being more open-minded. In this season we even learned she comitted a crime in order to save her sister. And then there's the friendship that's been built up between her and Martin, and also the justice things i talked about before. All this adds up to me that she is strongly not likely to turn him in. But she did. And i don't like it, and i don't really buy it.
And they shared such a deep moment at the end when Saga talked about their friendship. And we didn't even get Martin's thought process about what he did to Jens and their friendship. Ugh.
Still, even with all my criticisms, i still really enjoyed the season and it's mostly been consistently entertaining, just not as much as the first season. The performances by the actors who played Martin and Saga were great this season.