Norwegian detective series now available on Netflix
A brilliant but troubled detective, Harry Hole, hunts a serial killer while battling a corrupt adversary, Tom Waaler, as they navigate ethical gray areas, with Harry determined to bring the criminal to justice.
Note that this is specifically Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole, not William Shakespeare’s. It’s pretty similar, except without the flowery monologues.
Well, that, and the fact that it’s in Norwegian. Shakespeare rarely wrote in Norwegian, except for his famous Scandinavian Sonnet, which begins:
Skal jeg si du er lik en sild?
Du har mer ynde og mer deilig
Og du er mye mindre slimete
In English:
Shall I compare thee to a herring?
Thou art more graceful and more delicious
And thou art also not as slimy
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The only nudity is provided by dead people – in four different episodes. I always point out that Europeans love autopsies. Apparently that derives from to the fact that they love corpses in general.
Agnes Born in episode 2
Agnes Born in episode 5
Dagny Norvoll Sandvik in episodes 8 and 9
(Similar scenes, eight is pictured first)
Ah, the good old naked morgue scene. Are there mainstream American films or series which have a scene like this where an actress lies on the slab completely naked without any covering (usualy shown full frontal) , and concerned detectives look on her naked body?
I seem to remember quite a few such scenes from European films or series, but no American example comes to mind.
Double standards in the USA…
You can show a skull with half a brain destroyed, but not a breast.
After.Life (2009)
What’s up with Agnes Born? Two nude scenes, both being dead.
After.Life (2009) is not full frontal, but otherwise pretty close.
Everyone can just go fuck themselves with the “full frontal” horse shit’. This is incels finding a way to fault stellar nudity and they can suck my balls.
Stellar nudity is when it goes all the way. Like Rosario in Trance. Nudity can be nice aside from that, but stellar nudity is usually not America’s playground.
Apparently, Agnes’ condition did not improve between episodes 2 and 5.
“Heh heh, you said Hole”
The funny thing is, this is not at all dirty in Norwegian. Nesbo at least says it never occurred to him that “Harry Hole” was risque.
Corpse nudity aside, the books are great. ‘Knife’, in particular, got me through the worst of covid. I’m curious to see if the show is any good.