For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Dominic MaxwellYoung WallanderNetflixProbably best not to get too hung up on the whole Wallanderishness or otherwise of the quiet, decent, hard-bodied young Kurt Wallander that this enjoyable new police series gives us. Henning Mankell’s Wallander novels appeared in the early 1990s before becoming a television series in its Swedish homeland and then, starring Kenneth Branagh, on the BBC. In this Anglo-Swedish “modern reimagining” Adam Palsson plays Wallander as a young cop in a turbulent present-day urban Sweden, investigating the murder of a teen on the same jagged high-rise estate where he lives. Like his middle-aged successor (or is it precursor?) “Wallander, don’t stop the

Source: The Times September 02, 2020 23:03 UTC