Bridging the gap

Her favourite Scandi thriller is over so how will Lucy Sweet get her fix of bleak telly brilliance? She’s got some ideas

Now The Bridge (BBC4) has finished there is a Swedish/Danish pastry-shaped hole in my life that can’t be filled by any number of other dark, stressful, shocking TV shows. Where else are the murders so complex and truly warped? Where else can you find a show with a plot that’s more wilfully and permanently tangled than a pair of earphones that have been in your pocket? ‘There’s tons of that kind of stuff around these days!’ you cry. Yeah, but does the heroine drive an olive-green Porsche and twitch like a startled goat? Are there very niche jokes about the differences between Denmark and Sweden that I don’t understand? Is there a bridge in it? (There has to be a bridge. And it has to be an unremittingly grim-looking bridge, so…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 7/9/2018

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