In six slow episodes, you instead have to follow the Copenhagen Police's tiring work of gathering evidence, working on theories, adjusting theories and collecting more evidence - day and night.

And in the middle of this: tow a water-filled submarine and look for a body and a mobile phone at a depth of twelve meters.



Director Tobias Lindholm has created the

series in close collaboration with the murder investigator Jens Møller and also Kim Wall's parents Joachim and Ingrid Wall.

It is very unusual, if not unique, for a series about a current and contemporary murder to be made in collaboration with the police in this way.

Prescribed murder is another matter, there are many examples of it.

Not least Mindhunter, David Fincher's Netflix series that Tobias Lindholm has been involved in both as a director (two episodes) and co-author.



But the collaboration is clearly noticeable - unfortunately.

The series is both an information film about the police profession and a respectful tribute to the same.

Jens Møller (Søren Malling from Borgen och Brottet) is portrayed as an impeccable and methodical official with divine patience.

He may have shortcomings as a father and husband, but he has also handled 138 murder cases with, one must assume, the same zealous devotion.

The couple Wall, played by Rolf Lassgård and Pernilla August, do what is required of them: show anger and sadness.



But the series also directs subtle criticism

at the viewer himself.

Why are we watching?

Do we hope to know how the violent crime went, into the slightest grotesque technicality, which we have become so accustomed to from the never-ending plethora of detective series and true crime?

In that case, we can forget, this is not about the murder, but the tedious administrative work in stark contrast to the inflated headlines and snazzy details of the tabloid newspapers.

In that way, the series is unique and worthy of all respect.

It is not often that a series in the genre evokes thoughts in the same way.

But then this is rather anti-true crime, the perhaps natural consequence of a craze for crime and criminals packaged as entertainment.

The investigation premieres on SVT today 28 September and can now be seen on SVT Play.