ARD crime thriller
In search of the goblin’s eye: “Nord bei Nordwest” returns brutally funny
Scene from “Nord bei Nordwest – Kobold Nr. Vier”: Hauke Jacobs (Hinnerk Schönemann) and Hannah Wagner (Jana Klinge) view a crime scene.
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After a break of almost a year, “Nord bei Nordwest” is back. The wait was worth it: The new case brings everything that fans love about the crime series.
In the first minutes of “Goblin No. Four”, the new episode from the crime series “Nord bei Northwest” contains everything that makes the ARD crime series so popular and what is unique – at least on German television: the immediate juxtaposition of romance films, Nordic noir and comedy.
In the first scene, the love carousel surrounding Hauke Jabocs (Hinnerk Schönemann) and his two admirers, the police officer Hannah Wagner (Jana Klinge) and the veterinarian Jule Christiansen (Marleen Lohse), gets new momentum. This time the police officer and veterinarian seems to be turning his favor to the cool colleague at the police station.
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In the very next scene, extreme brutality suddenly breaks out into the apparent idyll of the northern German town of Schwanitz. A killer couple with a baby doll strapped to them mercilessly shoots people in a house on the edge of the forest. With the corpses comes the dark humor – in the person of the two undertakers, Mr. Töteberg (Stephan A. Tölle) and his confidant Ms. Bleckmann (Regine Hentschel), who remain nameless.
And while Jacobs, Wagner and Christiansen – in “Nord bei Nordwest” the vet also helps with the investigation – start the investigation, as a viewer you have to try to make sense of what happened. Who is the murder couple? And what did they want in the house? Shortly afterwards, another body was found on the Schwanitz coast. The woman carries a note with the words “Leprechaun Number Four.” Another mystery.
Overall, there is a lot of material packed into this 90-minute criminal case, which is actually solved in a satisfying way. Only Hauke Jacobs won’t be any smarter than before in the end: in the last scene he’s barbecuing with his two ladies on his houseboat – and now he also has a twelve-year-old orphan on board.
“Nord bei Nordwest: Kobold No. 4” runs on Thursday, January 4th at 8:15 p.m. on Erste
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