Dicte (TV series)

Dicte
Genre Detective fiction
Starring
Opening theme Dragonborn feat. Jacob Bellens - "The Words"
Country of origin Denmark
Original language(s) Danish
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 30
Production
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) Miso Film
Release
Original release January 7, 2013 (2013-01-07) – October 24, 2016 (2016-10-24)

Dicte (broadcast in the UK as Dicte – Crime Reporter) is a Danish series starring Iben Hjejle as crime reporter Dicte Svendsen, who has returned to her hometown of Aarhus following a divorce. The series is based on Danish author Elsebeth Egholm's series of novels about the title character. It is broadcast in Denmark on TV2 Danmark.[1]

Season 1 was broadcast in Denmark in 2013, season 2 in 2014, and season 3 in 2016. In the UK the first season was broadcast on More4 in mid-2016 as five feature-length episodes under the title Dicte - Crime Reporter,[2] followed by the second season in mid-2017, and the third starting July 2018. All three seasons are available on Netflix (US) since November 2016.[3]

Cast and characters

ActorCharacter
Iben HjejleDicte Svendsen
Lars BrygmannJohn Wagner
Lærke Winther AndersenAnne Skov Larsen
Lene Maria ChristensenIda Marie
Ditte Ylva OlsenBendtsen
Emilie KruseRose Svendsen
Dar SalimBo Skytte
Lars RantheTorsten
Thue Ersted RasmussenPeter Boutrup
Brinette Odgaard SorensenCecilie Høgh
Peter SchrøderKaiser
Sven Ole SchmidtKurt Hassing
Ulrik JeppesenChristian Willadsen
Jesper RiefensthalPer Simonsen
Rolf HansenJeppe Vrå
Simon Krogh StenspilDarko
Miro LabovicMirza
Jelena BundalovicRemza
Mikkel Boe FølsgaardCato Vinding
Neel RønholtMy

Episodes

Season 1

SeriesEpisodeTitleSynopsisOriginal Danish air date
11Personal - Part 1Dicte Svendsen moves back to her hometown, Aarhus, only to find rejection from her parents. She discovers a young woman's body when she is on journalistic assignment for something else. The detective in charge, John Wagner, and she discover a baby trafficking ring.January 7, 2013
22Personal - Part 2Not unexpected, but Dicte and Wagner are hot on the trail of the traffickers, only to find them closer to home.January 14, 2013
33Deductible - Part 1January 21, 2013
44Deductible - Part 2January 28, 2013
55Hidden Defects - Part 1February 4, 2013
66Hidden Defects - Part 2February 11, 2013
77Life and Body - Part 1February 18, 2013
88Life and Body - Part 2February 25, 2013
99Violence and Power - Part 1March 4, 2013
1010Violence and Power - Part 2March 11, 2013

Season 2

No. in seriesNo. in seasonTitleOriginal Danish air date
111Dreams and Diamonds - Part 1September 24, 2014
122Dreams and Diamonds - Part 2October 1, 2014
133Passion and Handcuffs - Part 1October 8, 2014
144Passion and Handcuffs - Part 2October 15, 2014
155Closeness and Distance - Part 1October 22, 2014
166Closeness and Distance - Part 2October 29, 2014
177Means and Ends - Part 1November 5, 2014
188Means and Ends - Part 2November 12, 2014
199Right and Responsibility - Part 1November 19, 2014
2010Right and Responsibility - Part 2November 26, 2014

Season 3

No. in seriesNo. in seasonTitleOriginal Danish air date
211After the Wedding - Part 1August 22, 2016
222After the Wedding - Part 2August 29, 2016
233In Wagner's Footsteps - Part 1September 5, 2016
244In Wagner's Footsteps - Part 2September 12, 2016
255When the Mind is Ill - Part 1September 19, 2016
266When the Mind is Ill - Part 2September 26, 2016
277The Price of Addiction - Part 1October 3, 2016
288The Price of Addiction - Part 2October 10, 2016
299Every Man Is an Island - Part 1October 17, 2016
3010Every Man Is an Island - Part 2October 24, 2016

Early reception

1.32 million viewers tuned into the first season's premiere in Denmark. While reviews were mixed, Hjejle received good reviews for her performance. Some critics complained that most of the actors' Copenhagen accents were not authentic for a show set in Aarhus, while other actors' accents were so overblown they seemed caricatures.[4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Dicte (2012-)". IMDb.
  2. ↑ Jodelka, Filipa (14 June 2016). "What I learned about Europe from watching Dicte - Crime Reporter". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ "'Dicte/Season 3 (2016) NR [Season]' - Netflix Instant". DTV USA Forum. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Jørgensen, Lasse Martin (8 January 2013). ""Dicte" får en blandet modtagelse" ["Dicte" gets mixed reception]. timefortv.tv (in Danish). Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Nielsen, Susanne (8 January 2013). "Seer-kritik: 'Dicte' er ikke aarhusiansk nok" [Viewer criticism: 'Dicte' not Aarhusian enough]. TV2 TVTID (in Danish). Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Navne, Helene (8 January 2013). "Anmeldere: Hjejle er dejlig, men "Dicte" er provinsiel og lunken" [Critics: Hjejle is great, but "Dicte" is provincial and tepid]. Politiken (in Danish). Archived from the original on 5 June 2013.
  7. ↑ Schwartz, Claudia (15 November 2014). "Dänische Krimiserie «Dicte» - Die Unbestechliche" [Danish crime series "Dicte" - The Untouchable]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  • Dicte on IMDb
  • "Dicte's Aarhus - New tv series to thrill international viewers". Denmark.dk. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
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