I guess programme producers are always trying a new angle and new backgrounds and here one is; an important meeting of Arctic foreign ministers being held in Greenland. In reality it could never have happened - the town the meeting took place in was more or less a large village and there would have been the need for 100s of bodyguards and security staff both foreign and, principally, Danish as the country responsible for Greenland.
Well, there weren't and it would have cluttered the setting if there had been. The backgrounds, scenery and the village were fascinating. What on earth a large conference centre and hotel were doing there, I don't know. I have no idea if this is a real place or not or if shooting was done somewhere else and the place named in the series was fictional.
So, we have this meeting to sign a treaty to forbid arctic drilling for oil. Right from the start, it appears that one country is the elephant in the room that wants concessions and watering down of the clauses. Just before the meetings are going on, a Swedish ship is hijacked and the crew and a diplomat taken hostage by ruthless terrorists.
The action sweeps through majestic landscapes in one thread and in the conference room in another. We can see that one country is the guilty party - this is not an ecological group that has taken the prisoners. All the evidence points one way so we know it must be false. It's a bit surprising that clever diplomats and SPADs didn't realise who the real baddies were by the end of episode three - I'd worked it out. It took me till episode five to work out who the agent on the ground was.
Nonetheless, it was fascinating to see the ministers playing catch up and working out the wheels within wheels. Some of them had feet of clay that were used against them and over it all was the threat of extreme violence by the supposed terrorists.
Individual heroism had to have a look in as well and the hostages' location was worked out by a couple of renegade cops who had begun to suspect that all was not as it seemed either in the cop shop or the conference room with all the currents of political wheeler dealing and double crossing.
This is the second Nordic political thriller I've watched in the past few weeks that pulls no punches about which country is the real danger to the world. Events at the end meant that there could be a second season that will obviously have to wait. If there were one, I'd watch it.
Well, there weren't and it would have cluttered the setting if there had been. The backgrounds, scenery and the village were fascinating. What on earth a large conference centre and hotel were doing there, I don't know. I have no idea if this is a real place or not or if shooting was done somewhere else and the place named in the series was fictional.
So, we have this meeting to sign a treaty to forbid arctic drilling for oil. Right from the start, it appears that one country is the elephant in the room that wants concessions and watering down of the clauses. Just before the meetings are going on, a Swedish ship is hijacked and the crew and a diplomat taken hostage by ruthless terrorists.
The action sweeps through majestic landscapes in one thread and in the conference room in another. We can see that one country is the guilty party - this is not an ecological group that has taken the prisoners. All the evidence points one way so we know it must be false. It's a bit surprising that clever diplomats and SPADs didn't realise who the real baddies were by the end of episode three - I'd worked it out. It took me till episode five to work out who the agent on the ground was.
Nonetheless, it was fascinating to see the ministers playing catch up and working out the wheels within wheels. Some of them had feet of clay that were used against them and over it all was the threat of extreme violence by the supposed terrorists.
Individual heroism had to have a look in as well and the hostages' location was worked out by a couple of renegade cops who had begun to suspect that all was not as it seemed either in the cop shop or the conference room with all the currents of political wheeler dealing and double crossing.
This is the second Nordic political thriller I've watched in the past few weeks that pulls no punches about which country is the real danger to the world. Events at the end meant that there could be a second season that will obviously have to wait. If there were one, I'd watch it.