Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticTowards the end of the new limited series “The Investigation,” the show’s central police inquiry seems stalled.
Nothing is moving in the right direction, and all players seem understandably frustrated. One cop (Laura Christensen) sets things right with an unlikely note of encouragement. “This isn’t a perfect crime,” she tells her boss (Søren Malling). “It’s a clumsy, disgusting crime.
So we must have overlooked something.”This is an unexpected note for the TV procedural — which thrives on the sleuth as genius, seeing through a case that comes as a shock to the viewer.
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