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‘Detective Hole’ Review: Jo Nesbo Brings Harry Hole to Netflix in a Moody Adaptation That’s Better Than ‘The Snowman’
Jo Nesbø wrote and adapted his novel for Netflix, featuring detective Harry Hole investigating a serial killer in Oslo in a nine-episode Nordic noir series.
- Netflix premiered 'Detective Hole', a nine-episode adaptation of Nesbo's 'The Devil's Star', starring Tobias Santelmann as the brooding detective Harry Hole navigating personal spirals and serial murder investigations.
- Following the failed 2017 'The Snowman' film, which missed 15 percent of its script, Nesbo's novels have struggled on screen despite selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.
- Harry suspects fellow detective Tom Waaler , a 'polymorphously deviant' villain, while investigating a serial killer who leaves star-shaped diamonds on victims and cuts off fingers at crime scenes.
- Featuring a melodic score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, the show adopts the grimdark procedural style characteristic of Amazon productions, though it streams exclusively on Netflix.
- Nesbo wrote the entire series with directors Oystein Karlsen and Anna Zackrisson, establishing an 'exceptional sense of creepy, nihilistic doom' that underscores Harry's precarious equilibrium throughout the nine episodes.
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‘Detective Hole’ Review: Jo Nesbo Brings Harry Hole to Netflix in a Moody Adaptation That’s Better Than ‘The Snowman’
Tobias Santelmann plays tormented detective Harry Hole, with Joel Kinnaman as his smirking, corrupt adversary, in Netflix's Oslo-set 'Detective Hole.
·Los Angeles, United States
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With "Jo Nesbø such Harry Hole", Netflix has filmed a classic of the Scandinavian crime mystery. The series is years too late – but it is the finest, optical, musical and with a phenomenal Tobias Santelmann in the lead role.
·Frankfurt, Germany
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The detective, born from the feather of the Norwegian author, ssincarnates under the traits of Tobias Santelmann. ...
·Brussels, Belgium
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Despite an aesthetic that seems straight from the 2000s, author Jo Nesbø self-adapts with some success the adventures of detective Harry Hole.
Tobias Santelmann has been around Oslo to find Harry's soul.
·Norway
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