‘Wallander’ returns to PBS for third time

McClatchy Newspapers

Kenneth Branagh morphs again as the moody and sensitive Swedish detective in “Wallander” when the series returns for the third time to PBS’ “Mystery!” on Sunday. What is it that sets Wallander apart from other detectives who prowl nights and analyze clues by day?

Branagh thinks it has something to do with Sweden’s topography. “When I visited, I did feel this sort of sense of being in a landscape painting,” he said. “In Sweden, if you even pull the car up to the side of the road in southern Sweden, there’s usually you, and there’s five miles of vast landscape, a huge sky, and one red barn. And everything feels as though it’s been composed by God for you to have a very good think about.”