1. Tabula Rasa - "mind games" in the Belgian style. Annemi Daz (just Mi) suffers from retrograde amnesia after a car crash. She remembers everything before the accident, remembers the loved ones, but the events that occur in her life after the accident completely erased. And it got to the point that one day she woke up in a psychiatric hospital and could not understand why she was here. The visit of Federal Police Inspector Volkers doesn't add to Mi's optimism and doesn't help her remember anything. He told her that she was the last person to see Thomas de Ghistes missing two days ago and that on the day Thomas Annemi disappeared she was found covered in blood in the woods, she was out of her mind and so she was in the clinic. Everything would be fine, but the trouble is that Mi doesn't remember anything...anything at all, including who Thomas de Guist is. To help Mi remember everything, a professional psychiatrist Mommyerts takes over. What secrets does Annemi's memory keep deep inside him? Will she be able to help the investigators find Thomas da Ghista?
The "labyrinths of consciousness and subconsciousness" are always of great interest to the viewer. There are enough projects on the topic of "memory has failed", so the Belgians have approached the question very creatively and did not shame. On the contrary, surprised and pleased! Beautiful people! At once I will stipulate, events in a serial develop very slowly, even for the European cinema. Action lovers and the movements of such a minor manner of narration will seem boring death! But I had the feeling that the Belgians had made it special. I'm telling you, they're showing off to the fullest! Say, there is no hurry in the thriller). Enjoy! I wasn't in a hurry "at one o'clock on a teaspoon"! It was a pleasure to watch how cautiously, step by step open the veil of Mi's memories. Not in a hurry, not overwhelming that we felt, but not bored and did not fall asleep at the screens. They heat up the situation masterfully, do not bend over, logically push one conclusion to another. Scriptwriters filigree "make" us ride on the "waves of memory" Mi with her. And what quantity of surprises and surprises were prepared to us by founders "on the way" - only time to digest.
I will not praise the Cleanlist anymore, I will only say - a good, dense story has turned out. You will appreciate ... just be patient and look through to the end!
Country: Belgium.
Year: 2017.
IMDB rating - 8.1
2. Hundred Code - Tommy Conley is investigating the murders of six girls that took place in and around New York City for three months. Soon the murders stopped, and everyone decided that the killer was looking for his victims in other cities. Sometime later, the body of a girl was found on the lakeshore in Stockholm. NYPD concluded that there was a connection between the death of a Swedish girl and the killing of American girls. Tommy Conley is flying to Stockholm urgently. Michael Eklund, a respectable detective of the Swedish police department, is going to resign, and "here for you" - Tommy from America, and in addition, a maniac. A nice last job before you retire!
I've always wondered - who writes thrillers about serial killers and comes up with such terrible murders and crimes? How can such a thing even come to mind homo sapiens in his right mind and hard memory?! Maybe the writers really on all head sick or in a labor collective of "words and a feather" necessarily should be present personal-hand-fed maniac (according to the staff schedule) which shares the bloodthirsty, mad fantasies, and "normal" uncles simply write down? I'm serious, you'll see such crimes even in nightmares of horseradish. But if you still dream of such things - "well, dove? Not nervous! It's a diagnosis! Take an overcoat, go to a psychiatrist ... or scriptwriters". I don't want to offend Oscar-winning Robert Moresco (Clash, Little Boy in a Million), but, brothers, a series of murders in Code 100 really goes beyond the usual perverted manic mind. It's just "tempting atrocities".
Therefore, all those who are morally ready for such a thing - to watch! But I do not advise people with a gentle soulful organization. Save your nerves.
I'll add that Michael Nyquist (Girl with a dragon tattoo) and Dominique Monahan (snubby Hobbit from the Lord of the Rings) made a charming tandem of detectives: one of them is "too old for all this shit", the other - young, hot and unpredictable. "Everything is as prescribed by the doctor.
And finally. Thank God that the Code 100 is not "based on real events", yet it is a terrifyingly realistic "fairy tale", which is scary and impossible to watch.
Country: Sweden, Germany.
Year: 2015.
IMDB rating - 7.4
To be continued...
Part 3: https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5d7bb23278125e00ad8d367a/beautiful-tv-shows-of-past-years-part-3-5d9505150ce57b00aeb2dbff