Culture|Television review
The Finnish forest beautifully plays one of the main roles in the comic tension series The Man Who Died. The series is based on a book by Antti Tuomainen. The series is faithful to Tuomainen’s original story, but has lost its roughness along the way.
Sparse in a murder mystery, the murdered gets to find out about his own murder.
Antti Tuomainen in a series based on the book of the same name The man who died this unlikely scenario materializes.
Elisa Viihte’s series of black comedy, suspense and murder mystery is the first film adaptation of Tuomainen’s diligently translated books. More may be in the offing, as it was reported last summer that Amazon Studios is partnering with Mandeville Films to produce Tuomainen About the rabbit coefficient (2020) film starring Steve Carrell.
Among other things Pekka Hiltusen based on tension Cold Courage series (2020) Brendan Foley has arranged and scripted a series that is faithful to Tuomainen ‘s original story, but has lost its roughness along the way. The result is somehow too neat.
Already Jaakko Kaunismaa, a mushroom entrepreneur who had suffered from strange symptoms for some time (Jussi Vatanen) in the first episode of the six – part series learns that someone has been poisoning him for a long time. The man’s body is so accustomed to the poison that death is slow but inevitable, says the doctor (Kari Väänänen). There may be a couple of weeks to live.
The Beautiful Country, which takes pine fragrance, or matsutake from Hamina to Japan, coveted by the Japanese, must try to find out its murderer before he dies. Has the deceased been a poisonous wife (Saara Kotkaniemi), gangster – like characters from a competing mushroom company, presented deliciously Kari Hietalahti, Pekka Strang and Jari Virman.
Or are the Japanese business partners involved (e.g. Eiji Mihara)?
Series rushes very slowly from time to time towards its final solution, even though there is both a fierce chase in the center of Hamina and samurai fencing. The dry humor of Tuomainen’s black doesn’t really get its flowers off the paper.
Jussi Vatanen presents a little unnecessarily controlled middle-aged man who has to think about the basic issues of life in a fast-paced way.
The co-producer of the series is the German ndF International Production and the financial investment is especially evident in the fine visuals.
The Finnish forest beautifully depicts one of the main roles in the series, and the delusions and dreams that give birth to poison mushrooms and murderers in Kaunismaa are an absolute treat in the series. Throwing more fairly to the side of madness would have increased the appeal of the series.
The man who died, Elisa Entertainment
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