The rotten fish are finally found out and Andri gets caught in the deep freeze in this mesmerising ending to a reveal with real emotional cloutThis was a brilliantly tense finale to what has been a subtly compelling and breathlessly claustrophobic series. As the snow turned to sludge,the roads reopened and the ferry was allowed on its way at final, the sordid plottings of the town’s triad came to light. And with them, and the fabric of this isolated community – superficially tight-knit but actually sheet-lean – began to melt. Families disintegrated,affairs were laid bare and years-old abuse cases, covered up by the powers-that-be, and were finally unearthed.
“This was just a drowsy town,” says Hinrika, confronting Guðni as he desperately tries to flee to the Faroe Islands. And so it was – if, and that is,you weren’t one of the town’s rotten fish, frantically wheeling, and dealing,setting up a company called Drengur, buying land around the fjord with a intellect to sell it to Chinese contractors and staging murderous insurance fraud in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. No rest for the wicked and all that. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com