The bulk of the Swedish series, including all the episodes of the second season, consists of original stories scripted by a variety of Swedish writers. The nine episodes of the BBC “Wallander” have been direct adaptations of the Mankell novels. Some of this difference may be traceable to the show’s sources. Henriksson’s Wallander is a crotchety but not entirely unhappy burgher, newly ensconced in a tidy house with a view of the sea. In Season 2 of the Swedish series, by comparison, Mr.
Mankell’s irritable character and pushed him to new depths of dour angst and desperation. Henriksson - not fire and ice, exactly, but more along the lines of cheap vodka and iced coffee. The new DVD set allows for a comparison of the Wallanders of Mr. Mankell’s dyspeptic detective in British and American popular culture, in part because of their on-screen success.
KENNETH BRANAGH WALLANDER FACELESS KILLERS SONG SERIES
Relatively recent arrivals like Salander, the heroine of Stieg Larsson’s massively popular Millennium novels and their Swedish and American film adaptations, and Lund, protagonist of the hit Danish television series “Forbrydelsen” (remade in America as “The Killing”), have eclipsed Mr. Mankell sketched out what was wrong with Wallander - misanthropy, despair, thoughtlessness, bad eating habits - and created the prototype of the brooding detective that has become the most popular Scandinavian import in the English-speaking world since Ikea. Over the course of 10 novels and various novellas and stories, Mr. “He didn’t stop to check whether the hare was still alive.” “It struck the left front wheel with a soft thud,” Henning Mankell wrote in “Faceless Killers,” the 1991 novel that introduced Wallander, a police detective in the windswept precincts of southernmost Sweden.
FOURTEEN years before Lisbeth Salander tortured her legal guardian, and 16 years before Sarah Lund began badgering her superiors in the Copenhagen police department, Kurt Wallander ran over a rabbit.
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