OK. As a practiced viewer of crime dramas and devotee of subtitles I fully acknowledge that these days, any cop worth his or her firearm in whatever country or continent they are employed has to have a troubled teen in the background. Usually, daughter; sometimes (as in The Killing) a son. I get that. It often bores me, but it comes with the territory.
I have just rewatched season 1 of Bordertown after watching season 3, and I love so much about this show, but has there ever been a more annoying troubled teen than Janina? Katia (here you get two troubled teenage daughters for the price of one) I can deal with - she is better acted and has more to be troubled about - but Janina is just completely and utterly annoying. While she was going through her prison scenes in the last 2 episodes of season 1, when she was involved with the revolting Elias throughout that season, and then during her emotional meltdown after Pauliina's death in season 3 I found myself fast-forwarding though her scenes, which, for me, ruined several good crime narratives. Maybe some viewers value these 'soapy' family, overarching narrative arcs in shows such as these, but please just give me the crimes and spare me the family dramas. They just, for me, take the edge off a show that is brilliant and absorbing for all the reasons given by the other positive reviewers on this site.
I have just rewatched season 1 of Bordertown after watching season 3, and I love so much about this show, but has there ever been a more annoying troubled teen than Janina? Katia (here you get two troubled teenage daughters for the price of one) I can deal with - she is better acted and has more to be troubled about - but Janina is just completely and utterly annoying. While she was going through her prison scenes in the last 2 episodes of season 1, when she was involved with the revolting Elias throughout that season, and then during her emotional meltdown after Pauliina's death in season 3 I found myself fast-forwarding though her scenes, which, for me, ruined several good crime narratives. Maybe some viewers value these 'soapy' family, overarching narrative arcs in shows such as these, but please just give me the crimes and spare me the family dramas. They just, for me, take the edge off a show that is brilliant and absorbing for all the reasons given by the other positive reviewers on this site.