User Reviews

Certainly a new low point in this series. The protagonist has to make a complete fool out of herself for no good reason. Annoying and boring. Surprisingly, this nonsense was written by a woman. Katrin Sass' character - having murdered her husband and driven her daughter to death - was initially interesting. She hasn't much to do here. This is obviously Rikke Lylloff's swan song. A good actress, who never found her footing in this series. Her character was always overwhelmed by personal problems. For some reason, this series is quite successful with audiences. There have only been a handful of decent episodes.

I thought the programme was over but great to see 6 new episodes to enjoy.

The characters make this series and I found the story interesting. Miss Norgard with another encounter and Karin brilliant as usual.

Good red herrings and I did not guess the culprit.

I've watched the first 2 episodes and they are a bit pacier so far but perhaps not quite as dark and moody as previous series.

There are so may crime fiction series but this is certainly unique. Set on a fictional island, Usedom, a community where everyone seems to know each other to a degree. Karin is outstanding as the ex prosecutor who can only help out in the cases due to her murder conviction years before.

I've been watching this series out of order, and just now viewed this episode, "Good News". The detective Ellen Norgaard had been the 2nd lead for a few years by this point. Some episodes have shown her as a single mother of Jesper, who is about 2 years old in "Good News". They did not reveal what we're told now, however: that the boy's father is a newscaster named Jonas Gomez, and that Ellen chose not to inform him about Jesper until now.

Baltic Crimes (or whatever alternate title you're seeing it under) is passable homicide detective show fodder, with plots taking priority. I can't say Ellen or any of the other characters particularly interest me, except for the boss Dirk Brunner (because surprisingly he's comic relief). However, the other Ellen episodes never indicate she'd do something so harmful, selfish, and frankly evil as concealing a boy from his father for 2 years.

The reason given is some nonsense about her "not wanting that kind of life".

So, for 2 years, she not only denies her son a father, but denies his father the chance to be with his infant son at all!

What was going through the filmmakers' heads?

And why am I not surprised that Ellen and Jonas remain self-absorbed. As each seeks to go off and consider things, there is no suggestion that Jesper deserves to have both his parents nearby to raise him, let alone in the same household.

I haven't said much about the mystery, have I? Neither does the episode, really, focused so much on Ellen's melodrama. Actually, the suspense in this episode is less oriented around a usual murder plot; this plot is one of those "The Big Clock" plots where the hero strains to cover up her personal involvement with the crime or prime suspect.