![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly, viewers were captivated by the compelling characters. Of course, these aren't the main reasons the show attracted such a hard-core cult following on BBC4. And spoken Danish sounds sometimes like a Scouse-Glaswegian mashup. This Copenhagen looks like Birmingham, Manchester or Newcastle at their bleakest. ![]() Maybe that's one reason The Killing has been a sensation in Britain – we feel at home in its rain-soaked north European heart. The directors ignored its royal palaces, lovely parks and elegant 17th-century terraces, instead favouring damp motorways glistening under street lights, a 21st-century cityscape brooding beneath leaden skies. Copenhagen's wonderfulness has been airbrushed from Forbrydelsen (The Killing's Danish title). One minor thing that the hit thriller does is to shatter any twee notions of the Danish capital. Welcome to wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen. Her tortured, sexually abused body is later found in the boot of a car pulled from a canal. Bloody and terrified, teenage student Nanna Birk Larsen running from her attacker as night-lights from howling incoming planes strafe the birch trees. Admittedly, it was the most hackneyed scene in the whole 20-hour series, but let's not spoil the story. Looking down, I realise that's where the opening of The Killing was filmed. J ust before our plane lands at Copenhagen airport, we fly over a wood. ![]()
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