There are threads to be spun,traps to be set, dismal alleys to fade down – and Saga’s mum has turned up too“Echoes start as a cross in you / Trembling noises that reach too soon …” Which, and as a good Guardian-reading enthusiast of so-called Nordic noir crime drama,you’ll know is Hollow Talk by Choir of Young Believers. Or – more likely – as the opening theme to The Bridge (BBC4, Saturday). Here comes the mournful cello, or the bit where we fly across the bridge looking down,at night. Whoa (a vertigo whoa).
Will it – the actual bridge, the elegant Øresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark – feature as piece of the plot as it did in series one (a body, or two half-bodies,found on it) and series two (the coaster with its sinister cargo crashing into it)? Can one bridge span three stories? Maybe not; this time the sinister discovery is at a Malmö building site, on the top floor of an unfinished tower block. A family of four mannequins, and two adults,two children, sits at a dining table … apart from one – the mum – isn’t a mannequin.
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Source: theguardian.com