Deadwind Season 3 - Netflix Series

DEADWIND Season 3 Trailer
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Sofia Karppi (Pihla Viitala), the lead detective, and Sakari Nurmi (Lauri Tilkanen), her sidekick, are investigating a series of gruesome murders that are happening on a daily basis. Plus we have drug dealers,  an evil pharmaceutical company, family problems as well as a cold case involving Karppi. There are also some bits about the history of medicine, so there is plenty to keep our little minds occupied.

A mosaic of Hippocrates on the floor of the Asclepieion of Kos, with Asklepius in the middle, 2nd–3rd century

The killer leaves a symbol with the bodies of the people he has killed. Eventually they discover that it is a predecessor to the Caduceus that medical-industrial establishment uses today. So they go back to Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC), who lived on the island of Kos, the same island that a couple of people in the story visited. Turns out the symbol is sold as a tourist trinket all over the island. So things are getting tied together. I did not find any evidence of this symbol being a real thing, but does it matter? It works in this story.

Helsinki to Kos - 1,600 miles

In Episode 7, just after the 5 minute mark, Nurmi quotes Paracelsus (1493 – 1541) , father of toxicology, from the 16th century, saying "the dose is the poison", which leads Karppi to look at the problem in a new way. Supposedly the pharmaceutical company is trying to develop a new drug to help drug addicts break their addiction. But now Karppi wonders if maybe they were working on a new, undetectable poison. Might be a lot of people interested in something like that. Might also explain the rash of dead bodies that have been showing up.

Flak tower in Rajamäki

In the course of their investigation they pay a visit to a Flak tower. It might be the only one in Finland. It's 30 miles north of Helsinki. Rumor has it that it was built to protect a nearby distillery that was busy producing Molotov cocktails. Never heard of anyone producing Molotov cocktails on an assembly line before.

Porsche Tacyan Turbo

Nurmi has new fancy car - an electric Porsche. Never mind the Turbo name, it has no turbocharger, it's all electric. Scenes with the car include whining electric motors. I wonder how realistic that is. It could be spot on or it could be amped up for effect. Sounds are funny, sounds you normally ignore can wreak havoc with audio recordings.

Somewhere in there is a scene where our heroes are in a bar having a beer, and the beers are Coronas. Struck me as funny. Ooo, look at us drinking imported beer. Kind of like drinking Heineken over here. There is also a nightclub called Kansas. Over here it sounds absurd, why would anyone want to name a nightclub after the middle of nowhere? To the Finns, the state of Kansas might seem like a dreamy fantasyland.

Season 1 post. Season 2 post.