☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Pagan Peak (Season 1; 2018) – C. Boss & P. Stennert
Looking for
another TV series to stream when there isn’t time or energy to watch films and
I came across this one on SBS On Demand.
Although it seemed at first to have supernatural overtones (due to the
serial killer’s use of Krampus masks and iconography), it quickly turned into just
another police procedural, albeit one that takes place in a very scenic
location – in the Alps on the border of Germany and Austria. The two detectives do get fleshed out across
the 8 episodes with Ellie Stocker (Julia Jentsch) from Germany transforming
from optimistic and even bubbly to more beaten down and world weary and Gedeon
Winter (Nicholas Ofczarek) from Austria moving in the opposite direction from
cynical and disengaged to sensitive and involved. We
also eventually get to meet the killer and learn about him. So, yes, this is one of those shows where the
suspense slackens and it turns to a game of cat-and-mouse rather than
whodunnit. The ending of Season 1 is
poignant and fitting. Overall, Pagan Peak is watchable but not particularly
thought-provoking. I’m not sure I need
to watch Season 2.
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