Let's be realistic.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

There are some flaws that are responsible for the -1 from a perfect ten. It's not a perfect show, just a very, very good one.There are some TV/film clichés, but they're not that many. Some inconsistent behavior from characters that makes no sense. I won't get into them because they would be spoilers.But it's beautifully written, well-directed and shot. The actors are very completely convincing.The way the show is written and structured is less around the life of one person and more about the interconnected lives of people, from detective to garage mechanic to lawyer to CEO and their friends and families.It's similar to Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad in that way - cause and effect, action and reaction, domino and butterfly effects.Must watch.

This decade has brought along so many strong Scandinavian dramas that it is often difficult to keep track and make distinctions - partially also due to the limited number of performers filling out major/important roles... The same applies to Bedrag, where modern "coryphaeuses" like Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Alexander Sødergren and Thomas Bo Larsen as Mads take part, but many smaller roles are also performed by many otherwise having bigger roles in famous series. Still, the two mentioned are not dominating too much, every character has its significance, and all in all, a solid cast is formed, to be widely followed and noticed.True, a good series emanates from the plot, and it is pleasantly versatile; focusing on e.g. financial crimes only would have made the plot more arid and specific, not for wider audience, but inclusion of a punisher and petty thieves has provided thrilling and even some amusing moments, enabling to "freshen up" from sophisticated economic relations and terms. The ending is also many-featured, probably not satisfactory per se, but evidently more realistic as not all wrongdoers are caught and/or sentenced in real world.Although the Season 1 had its somewhat clear - but not full-scale - end, I have read that Season 2 will follow. Good news, I will definitely watch it as well.

Energreen is a company that is tipped to be a leading player in the renewable energies market. Headed by a young, charismatic go getter in the shape of Alexander Sødergren. They are looking to expand even further and hopefully float the stock too for a great mound of cash. The thing is when a thing is too good to be true then it usually isn't.So when things start to unravel they have alternative tactics to close things down. This can mean paying off the culprits or maybe not. We have the parallel story of the fraud squad, the cops and a mechanic who all get involved in the goings on at this ever so green company. It is a web of intrigue where no prisoners are ever going to be taken.Now this is Danish so falls nicely into the Nordic Noir genre of which I am a big fan. This has all the usual things you would expect in terms of a high calibre production and excellent acting. Thomas Bo Larsen as Mads, the police lead, is simply superb as the driven man but with marital strife and other problems. The full cast though are all exceptional. I really enjoyed this, so much so that I put off watching the final episode for a torturous three days – finally saw it last night and it keeps the guessing going till the final scene – seriously recommended.

Mads is a Copenhagen police officer who has started working with the fraud squad; he is convinced that there is something wrong with the energy firm Energreen. There is indeed something wrong; fraud is discovered by young corporate lawyer Claudia. She reports it and two employers are paid off on condition that they leave Denmark. Claudia is quickly promoted and soon finds herself drawn into the corruption while her boss, Alexander Sødergren, ensures that his signature doesn't appear on any paperwork linked to the fraud. If that wasn't enough a couple of small time criminals steal the car belonging to one of the men that was paid off; it contains two million euros and a laptop that contains evidence against Energreen… this makes their lives far more complicated because there are people who will kill to ensure that the fraud remains uncovered.One might have thought that a drama about corporate fraud, with talk of things like shell companies, wouldn't be too exciting but this series managed to be fairly gripping from the start. This is of course helped by the fact that there is an element of real danger for some characters. While the viewer is in no doubt that Energreen is rotten there is no guarantee that their fraud will ultimately be exposed and those responsible punished as we are constantly reminded that corporate fraud is notoriously difficult to prove. The story is resolved in a satisfying way. The secondary plots concerning Mads' wife leaving him for her doctor and Claudia talking about moving to Paris with her son are a bit of a distraction from the main story but not overly so and it does show us other sides of the characters. The cast does an impressive job; most notably Thomas Bo Larsen as Mads, Natalie Madueño as Claudia and Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Sødergren. Overall I'd recommend this to people who have enjoyed other Scandi-dramas.These comments are based on watching the series in Danish with English subtitles.