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From: LoneClone8/14/2025 3:52:09 PM
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Pale Mountains (Brennero)
Sleboda

I recently watched two similar series, one Polish, one Italian.

Pale Mountains (Brennero) is set in South Tyrol, a mountainous part of Italy where many speak German. I have watched a similar German series set in Tyrol which minimized the tensions between the German and Italian speakers, but here they are front and centre. The story itself is a complex murder mystery with roots decades earlier, roots that involve the father of the central figure who happens to be descending in Alzheimer;s disease. She is a prosecutor who cries a lot yet somehow maintains heavy makeup at all times, and who works closely with a police officer who is trying get back to Active duty after losing a leg pursuing the central suspect. Did I mention it was complex?

One oddity is that every now and we suddenly get what is essentially a short music video featuring one of the main characters looking worried. The saving grace is that the musical choices are generally excellent.

The Polish series Sleboda is set in the Tatar Mountains in southern Poland. The central figure is an anthropologist who returns home to the mountains after a mid-life crisis, but stumbles across a body and ends up investigating with a journalist and a local policeman who happens to be childhood flame. But that is only the beginning. The first episode was devoted to introducing new plot lines in virtually every scene, and I was surprised when even more were introduced in the second episode. I am not sure I kept track of everything but that did nor impair my enjoyment.

Again in this series there were occasional odd shifts in tone, e.g. near the end we were suddenly in a full on action scene featuring fighting at the top of a cliff, but only for 5 minutes or so. The scenery was quite beautiful, though eerily reminiscent (for me) of the mountain valleys of southeastern BC. If you had showed parts of this series to me with the sound turned off I would have thought it was set and filmed in BC.

Pale Mountains packed a lot into its 8 episodes, and Sleboda even more into its 6 episodes, maybe a little too much, but I can still recommend both series.

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