Petos

Nordic noir, which is surprisingly not in the form of a freezing thriller as usual, but it´s a financial crime movie, where instead of blood and corpses stock trading piles up thanks to non-public information, where one shell corporation with a bunch of straw men covers another one and where corruption is a regular way of conducting business. Unlike the overseas Billions, which work with many similarly constructed dynamics, here all the corporate, financial, negotiation and sharp practice hidden behind stacks of documents are not a purely umbrella pretext, but a regular part of it all. It doesn't detract from the excitement of the result, because at the core it's still mainly about the characters and their actions, or simply "white-collar nordic noir" with everything one would expect from it: conflicting characters with incredible motivations, reserved procedural approach, everything tangled and confused and the already traditional problem of Danish series, where the pace is so specifically slow that it could / should be told in eight episodes instead of ten (or ten with shorter footage) and at the same time it would not seem rushed. | S1: 4/5 | (25.03.2017)