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Lydia Leftcoast

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18. I prefer the original Swedish series (shown on MHz Worldview, which

Reply to MaineDem (Reply #8)

Fri May 4, 2012, 10:58 PM

May 2012

takes up one of the public access channels in Minneapolis).

Branagh's Wallander looks and acts like he just crawled out of an alley on Sunday morning. Krister Henriksson, who plays Wallander in the Swedish-made series, is much truer to the books and while obviously depressed, he seems more like a normal person.

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