A Finnish family is found in cold bleeded murder on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Homicide that shocks Fuengirola's Finnish community is sent a criminal investigator from Finland.
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The surprising links between the deaths of two Finnish women start ringing the alarm bells in Andrés and Hilkka, who is now back in Finland. Soon it appears that there might be a third victim ...
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A Finnish family is found murdered in cold blood in the Costa del Sol, Spain. The crime investigator Hilkka Mäntymäki (Riitta Havukainen) is sent to investigate the homicide that has shocked the ...
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Hilkka is sorely missed at home. But Andrés (Fran Perea) badly needs her help in solving the case. Gradually the crime investigators start unravelling the events that have led to the tragic death of ...
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A Finnish family is found in cold bleeded murder on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Homicide that shocks Fuengirola's Finnish community is sent a criminal investigator from Finland.
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I'm sure the treatment looked good in text. I'm sure such a story could develop in this way. I don't mind a slow pace. But this isn't a well-told narrative, Riitta Havukainen is very stiff and surprisingly detached in highly dramatic situations and not that convincing at all. She somehow makes it sound as she's just remembered the lines and state them without much presence. There are a small handful of passing moments where she is convincing.
Her family members, Armi Toivanen and Risto Tuorila, both do a much better job. Of course, they are much less on screen. Fran Perea is convincing as Andrés Villanueva, most of the Spanish personalities act well in their limited part of the story.
The dialogue is certainly not the best, but it's OK. are There quite a few acts executed by different people where the drive behind them is very much absent for the narrative. Some developments are highly illogical. When the producers want to make emotional summaries of multiple lines of story developments, or when thigns heat up between two persons, they add some music meant to be suggestive of the mood and do cuts that look very amateurish and bland. Pretty weak stuff.
There's nothing mesmerising about "Paratiisi". Except than the fact that there are quite a few Finnish people living in Spain I learned nothing of value. I don't want to learn of any of these characters again, except maybe Andrés or Henna.
I wacthed all episodes, but now I feel I'd be much better off if I hadn't. You have been warned. If you're not that fuzzy, you might like it. But I'm avoiding the director Marja Pyykkö from now on.