#Deadwood season 3 dvd review tv#

And this decision to focus on infidelity even gives one particular secondary character much more attention than he deserves considering his place in the series.Д«ut, playing devilвЂ™s advocate, it could argued that those developments suit the third seasonвЂ™s exploration of how the personal is political, and the political is personal. Only one actually bears some real fruit in terms of character, while the others for the most part feel more like cheap devices to spruce up a script, rather than organic developments borne out of circumstances presented in the story threads. And while writers can determine that a story can always go where it needs to go, many of these flings ultimately have no narrative impact. Indeed, it seems no one can get through the season without having an affair of some kind, whether itвЂ™s between co-workers at TV1, political party members, or sometimes a mix between the two. And while density has never been a problem for the writers, the choice of narrative focus throughout season three often unevenly tilts the drama toward the tawdry. Now toss in duplicity, Communists, bankers, a potentially life threatening disease and more, and вЂњBorgenвЂќ has a lot on its plate to deal with across ten episodes. Meanwhile for Katrine, the new job further complicates the home life for the new single mother, who has split from Kasper Juul ( Pilou Asbaek -disappointingly in a much reduced role) but shares custody with him of their young son. But over at TV1, KatrineвЂ™s absence couldnвЂ™t come at worse time for her former bossВ Torben Friis ( SГёren Malling), who is under pressure from the new head of the network, Alexander Hjort ( Christian Tafdrup) to deliver better ratings even it means trumping the integrity of their work. To make this all work, Birgitte assembles a ragtag, small but enthusiastic team of politicians willing to break their party affiliations to join her side, and manages to poach respected and popular TV1 newsanchor Katrine FГёnsmark ( Birgitte Hjort SГёrensen) to come and run her media relations. Seeing the Moderates taking a decided shift to the right under the leadership of Jacob Kruse ( Jens Jacob Tychsen), after BirgitteвЂ™s attempts to re-join the party are rebuffed, she decides to launch her own party, one guided by the principles she feels have been abandoned by the Moderates. SheвЂ™s put politics behind, and has even embarked on a new relationship with British architect Jeremy Walsh ( Alastair Mackenzie), but until Borgen is calling her once again.

Season three kicks off two years after the close of season two, and things have changed greatly.В Birgitte Nyborg ( Sidse Babett Knudsen) is now in the private sector, sitting on the board of a major corporation, doing lectures and traveling the world.

But all that said, the showвЂ™s peaks are still some of the best television around, and the second half the third season makes up for a bumpy start. An increase of cheap melodrama comes at the expense of nuance, while domestic squabbles get as much play as media and political developments. Which makes it all the more a shame that the third and final season doesnвЂ™t quite hit the high bar that has been set.

#Deadwood season 3 dvd review tv#

While the novelty factor of вЂњ BorgenвЂќ is that itвЂ™s a drama about the fictional female leader of Denmark, what has made the show must-watch TV across two seasons has been its sharp writing and terrific characters, populating a textured world of ethical choices and moral complexity in a constantly shifting political sphere.