There was another reason Alice asked Louise to have a fresh look at her son’s case: she was terminally ill with a brain tumour and desperately wanted to live to see her son’s killer brought to justice. Despite two more murders that were similar in MO, the police had not made any headway.
In fact, after some opening ice-breakers, Alice got to the crunch – she had asked Louise to come because he wanted her to look into Markus’s murder. We soon found out the Alice had endured trauma in her recent past – her young son Markus was murdered five years ago.
In this new, eight-part story, she travelled to the town of Funen (just outside Odense) to visit old family friend Alice (Solbjorg Hojfeldt). We didn’t really get to know her in series one, so now she’s on her own she might just be given the time and space to grow and develop. Instead the focus – in the early going at least – was on Louise, which conversely I thought was a good thing. I wasn’t mourning his omission, if I’m being honest, because Jan’s character in that first story was full of anger and volatility, and, let’s face it, wholly unlikable. A solid procedural with two rather forgettable leads and a really nasty undertone, the villains (and they were seriously cracking villains) hogged the limelight.įor this second series Natalie Madueño returned as ace profiler Louise Bergstein, but conspicuous by his absence was her investigating partner in series one, Jan. Series one was also shown on BBC Four but with the subtitle, Darkness, and it really wasn’t kidding. It feels like quite a while since we had a really good Nordic Noir on BBC Four ( DNA maybe?), and heading into the second run of this Danish series hopes weren’t high that Blinded: Those Who Kill could or would restore the faith.
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