Young Wallander is a crime drama streaming television series, based on Henning Mankell’s fictional Inspector Kurt Wallander. The series premiered on Netflix on September 3, 2020. Pålsson explained that the pre-imagining (i.e., Young Wallander being set in the present day) made more sense than a straight prequel as it allowed for the social commentary which is a strong element of Mankell’s original Wallander.Young Wallander Season 1-2 Download
[1] This choice of setting the series in the modern day has been criticised in a number of reviews.[1][2]In November 2020, the series was renewed for a second season which was premiered on Netflix on February 17, 2022, and subtitled as Killer’s Shadow.Young Wallander is a young, edgy, and modern series that sees Henning Mankell’s iconic detective Kurt Wallander investigate his gripping first case. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal – faced by Kurt as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties.In Malmö, a young Kurt Wallander becomes witness to local Hugo Lundgren, who is tied to a fence with a grenade in his mouth, blows up in his neighbourhood. The police suspect Ibra, a young boy who lives in his neighbourhood, whom Wallander also knows. He promises the boy’s mother that he will find out why he was suspected. Despite his efforts, he learns that the police have evidence based on the boy’s arguments with Lundgren the same day before he died. Lundgren’s murder sparks anti immigration protests in the city, which Wallander is attached to. Amid the protests, neo nazis burst through the protesters and cause havoc and starts attacking bystanders and other officers. Wallander sees the man from the scene of Lundgren’s murder, and chases him through a subway station before cornering him by a locked gate. The man chants in a foreign language as Wallander moves in to arrest him, but the man pulls out a knife and stabs him before fleeing.