Sky Atlantic's new thriller The Tunnel boldly boasts that it is from the makers of Broadchurch (not a ringing recommendation to some) and it is not until deep into the end credits that The Bridge is even mentioned.
Yep, because that is what has been omitted from all the numerous trailers that The Tunnel is a carbon copy of The Bridge. And right from the start The Tunnel is hampered, where the original Nordic noir classic could start on the vast vistas of the Oresund Bridge The remake can only boast a dark service tunnel. We all know the premise a dead body is found precisely placed between the boarder of two countries (this time out France and England replace Sweden and Denmark) and two detectives, one from each territory, have to investigate. Here is where The Tunnel really starts to lag behind its Scandinavian counter-part. Clemence Posey's Elise Wassermann just doesn't have the brilliant other worldliness of Sofia Helin's magnificent SagaNoren. You immediately got that Saga was the star of the show and quite rightly so. Here Stephen Dillane's Karl Roebuck is in danger of eclipsing Wassermann, with his Columboesquemannerisms.This should not happen and it is something Kim Bodnia's Martin Rohde never did in the original.
We managed to get one clue, in the first episode, the killer is obviously a Star Wars fan because he sounds exactly like Princess Leia when she poses as a bounty hunter. On the plus side we get the language and cultural differences better in this version ( Sweden and Denmark seemed to meld into one) and we are spared The Bridge's daffy theme song, but other than that The Tunnel really is The Bridge by numbers. Soon we will have the American version to moan about, will it never end?
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