The Devil's Star - Netflix Series

Detective Hole | Official Trailer
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Detective Harry Hole is a creation of Jo Nesbø. He has appeared here before.

Pretty great show. Very complicated revenge plot. Willy, an effeminate theater director finds out his wife is still exchanging love letters with Martin (a guy she had an affair with like 20 years ago) and loses his mind. He contrives a scheme to make Martin look like a serial killer, but in fact kills all the victims himself. 

Meanwhile, we have a very nasty villain, Tom Waaler, a dirty cop. He is a member of a right-wing death squad, illegally importing weapons. Unfortunately, his source for the weapons is Martin, the same guy Willy is trying to frame for murders.

Occasionally, someone will come across Tom (the dirty cop) doing dirty deeds and Tom kills them. So we have two killers running around loose. Harry sorts it all out.

The framing of the smuggler goes very well, the guy is arrested and the coppers think they have a solid case. But something about it bugs Harry. He explains it to his boss that 'it felt right, but it didn't feel  genuine'.

There are a couple of gory scenes, one in a very sleazy public restroom and another in an elevator. Seems like the makeup artists are always trying to outdo each other. Does this level of gore boost their audience numbers? I suppose it must. I think I prefer the old English style of bloodless murder mysteries.

P. S. Martin comes from Prague to visit his mother in Oslo on a regular basis. She lives in this house:

Martin's mother's house

The house is situated in a railyard in Oslo, or so it would appear in the show. Looks like it might be an antique railway station, carefully preserved. However a close inspection of the railyard in Oslo shows no such house. Google could not identify it, other than to say it was 'in the German style'. So, AI. Still, a pretty nice house. Except for being in the middle of a railyard.