Wisting

Wisting

New from CineNord and available on subscription channel Acorn TV , ‘Wisting’ is a new Nordic Noir that barely pauses for breath as it takes on abduction, confinement, murder, questionable methods, sharp practice and past misdemeanors.
A corpse has been found in the snow in a Christmas tree farm near Larvik, woods. Senior Police officer William Wisting (Sven Nordin, also of ‘Valkyrien’) an intense middle-aged widower, is heading the investigation, and the team turn up fingerprints that point toward the perpetrator being a serial killer who has eluded the US force for twenty years. The victims of recent crimes in Norway are very similar to his; young, fair attractive girls who are abducted, abused, murdered and then dumped.

The FBI sends two agents to ‘observe’ the investigation, led by the driven and ruthlessly efficient Maggie Griffin (Carrie-Anne Moss) and her young assistant John Bantham (Richie Campbell). Their presence does not go down well with tetchy, seasoned detective Nils Hammer (Mads Ousdal), who regularly shows his disdain for the guests. After a tense briefing, the team go to work shadowed by their US counterparts and Wisting’s ambitious journalist daughter Line (Thea Green Lundberg). Line’s feel for a good story means crossing paths and occasionally swords with her father, in her relentless pursuit of the career making headline.

Wisting’s professional allegiances are tested to the limit as evidence tampering in a previous investigation comes to light, Police chief Andrea Vetti (Irina Eidsvold Toien) suspends Wisting blaming him as head of investigation, and familial tension boils the pot still further as his son Thomas (Jonas Strand Gravli) returns home for a stay, only to find his heavily pre-occupied father and hard-working sister largely absent from what he hoped would be a long overdue family bonding.

The intense search for the serial killer takes us on a tour of urban, sub-urban and rural Norway, with changes of scene often signaled by overhead shots of the snowy landscape and neat, regular houses, laid out like a map. Past offender Vidar Haglund (Christoffer Staib), newly released from a lengthy jail sentence and out for restitution for his incarceration for a crime of which he was innocent, is suspect number one. The department are loath to put him through the interrogation mill once more, especially considering he now has a sharp lawyer on his side, and with Wisting firmly in his sights.

Performances are excellent throughout, from Sven Nordin’s granite faced, haunted detective, to Christoffer Staib’s patient, controlled ex-jailbird and Thea Green Lundberg’s breathless, desperate investigative journalist.

‘Wisting’s strength lies in its dizzyingly fast-paced story line and well-drawn characters but it’s the subtle red herrings that set it apart from other Police shows; you kick yourself for not noticing them, soon after their revelation. Run over ten episodes, and with effectively two stories on the go, this series will grip you from the beginning and won’t relinquish it until the exhausting, bloody end.

Scenester

12/8/21

Link:

https://uk.acorn.tv/browse/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv7786Kmw8gIVU4jVCh1sNQZdEAAYASAAEgJ5_PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

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