Gunvald deserves his own series, and it looks like they are setting things up for that in the latest season.
I would love to watch it - He might lack the human element that Martin brings but he is a class act nonetheless.
MP really is a most impressive actor β he portrays a character that is powerful, graceful and amusing all at the same time.
I do also like Martin, though, and the interaction of the two characters.
He is my favourite character; hilarious without being a comedy character!
shareI watched the first show of 2016 "Gunvald" some days ago, and that will make a huge difference in all other shows.
I am amazed over that people outside Sweden actually like Beck, for me it's only a standard police-show
Beck and some other shows (Wallander, The Bridge/Bron) are very often a joint production with German and other Scandinavian countries
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He REALLY evolved as a character through the series.
I love Beck, Wallander, Broen (can't wait for new season in US).
Do you like the U.K. Stuff? Lewis (my favorite), Gently, Frost?
I get a major kick out of his character, started watching the series on a regular basis because of him. He starts out as a rather stereotypical 'loose cannon' sort, but Persbrandt's injection of sly humor into the part livens things up quite a bit. Doesn't hurt that he's not hard to look at either, but it's primarily his really witty take on what could have been a pretty conventional character that makes this fun to watch.
I hope he does get his own series, if he wants to do one, and I hope it becomes available in the US. If he wants to pursue other roles instead, I wish him the best of luck, and would like to see more of his work outside of Beck. He's a talented actor, and deserves to be well-employed.
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I have just watched the eponymous episode - and was very disappointed that Gunvald has gone to Valhalla where he will no doubt enjoy some Philadelphia cheese with the angels before being transported back to earth to star in his own series !!!
I hate it when good characters leave a series.
Worse - he was barely in it. Out of barely two minutes screentime (see Gunvald walk into the office! see Gunvald sitting down at a table! see the back of Gunvald's head as he drives his car!), it looked like half was stock footage with only his last scene new and after that it was a body double for the hospital scenes who very obviously wasn't him under the bandages. I had to check to see if he was actually in it at all when it was over. He might as well not have bothered turning up: not only did he have nothing at all to do, but even though the episode supposedly revolved around his fate there was absolutely no sense of his character or who he was, rendering him as anonymous as one of Star Trek's ill-fated red shirts. As if that wasn't a terrible enough sendoff, the ending with Beck and the team going rogue and shooting it out was almost as dumb as the rampaging Gunvald-does-Taken Eye of the Storm episode that preceded it.
The show definitely feels like it jumped the shark when they started killing off team members last season and then introduced a batch of anonymous new ones in generic 'big' stories destined to catch headlines to drive up the sales/ratings.
"Security - release the badgers."
I agree wholeheartedly with all your points - it was a damp squib send off for the actor.
shareI did however like the closing clarinet music/lament....and the honoring silence at credits.
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