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Mr. Malling is an unconventional star, and Jens an unconventional hero. ... [Kim’s parents, Joachim and Ingrid] provide some naked, much needed humanity, because the principals are so often trying to suppress their own.
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The absence of speculative psychology, the absence of an embodied suspect, the absence of all the lurid and spectacular grisly drama that so often shows up in this genre — all of it does feel like an absence, even though the gap is purposeful. And to its detriment, The Investigation can’t help but try to fill it all up with something, which is mostly a heavy-handed side story about chief detective Jensen and his own rocky relationship with his adult daughter.
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Plodding and mournful, the dirge-like series takes as its primary subject not even Jens, but the laboriousness of the inquiry into Wall’s killing. ... Even with an extensive epilogue dedicated to Wall and her parents’ endeavors to remember their late daughter by funding the work of female journalists, the show can’t help feeling like it’s also sidelining the real-life woman without whose death it would have never existed.
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In telling the story so faithfully, it became mired in minutiae, lacking pace and power. We ended up with something authentic, certainly, but as dull as its generic title.