YMMV / Forbrydelsen

• Awesome Music: The closing music, which combines high-paced and moody to such great effect the Americans used it themselves.
• Complete Monster: Season 2: Ulrik Strange, initially appearing to be Sarah Lund's loyal ally and Love Interest, is a brutal war criminal determined to bury his crimes. Whilst stationed in Afghanistan, Strange located a family accused of helping the Taliban and goaded Raben, the leader of a squad sent to help him, into shooting one of the children, before executing the rest himself. Later becoming a police detective, Strange decides to murder the entire squad after realizing he is being investigated. Visiting the home of a lawyer looking into his case, Strange stabs her over 21 times, before dumping her in a memorial park and framing it to look like the work of a terrorist. Locating two other members of the squad, Strange kills one with his own dog tag and has the other necklaced, sadistically using the man's own mobile phone to spark the fire. When Raben escapes and goes to his former comrade Lisbeth Thomsen, Strange steals explosives from an army barracks and blows up Thomsen on her boat. After he and Lund corner Raben, Strange attempts to shoot him dead under the pretence that Raben wouldn't lower his weapon. Strange then plants evidence to frame a soldier called Bilal, which causes the man to snap and kill himself after abducting Raben's wife. When Lund correctly deduces that Strange was the culprit, Strange coldly guns her down before beating the traumatized Raben and attempting to kill him too.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show became an unlikely critical and commercial success when broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four, to the point it won a BAFTA.
• Stoic Woobie: Lund, unsurprising given all the crap she goes through. By the end of season three she's a fully-fledged Broken Bird.
• Tear Jerker: Theis and Pernille in Season One, sitting their small sons down on the kitchen table and breaking the news to them that their elder sister is dead. Complete with Armor-Piercing Question:
  Anton: Dad, how did she die?
  • Nanna's funeral in Season One. Dear god.
• The Woobie: Theis and Pernille Birk-Larsen, especially Pernile.
  • Troels has his moments, too. He's introduced to the audience crying at his wife's grave and then it gets worse, often in a way that yanks the dog's chain. Really this applies to almost any major character who doesn't turn out to be an actual murderer.

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