His victims – including Markus – excelled in a particular field, whereas we learned that Peter had dropped everything to take up a job in a construction workshop for his wife and her dream of living in the perfect family home. He could not stand others who were getting ahead in life and those who he perceived to be better than him. Gratifyingly, he was a three-dimensional character, whose prime driving force for killing his victims was jealousy. It’s always an interesting and bold move point to reveal a killer so early on but Blinded: Those Who Kill pulled it off – as Louise and Karina tried to understand Peter’s seemingly random choice of victims, we learned more about Peter. Living with his young son, on the outside he was a flawed father trying his best to learn the nuances of single parenthood. Peter Vinge (the always reliable Tobias Santelmann) was a complex, quiet man, whose marriage had collapsed.
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Whereas series one was a whodunit, we found out the identity of the killer very early on in episode one. Initially sceptical of Louise, Karina soon accepted her and together they went about trying to form a new profile of the murders and the murderer himself.
Suddenly this second series of Those Who Kill was already infinitely better than the first thanks to an interesting, complimentary duo at its procedural core.
This device – Alice’s prognosis – helped to set the clock ticking and put a timeframe on the whole investigation.ĭespite early requests and few rebuffs, Louise’s good work (because of course she found some new angles the local police had missed earlier) was rewarded with a place on the investigating team, thanks to SIO Karina Hørup (Helle Fagralid). 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.
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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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