Deadwind

Recommended by Netflix after watching the last season of The Fall.
There's no comparison on any level. But I do like Finland and the Finnish language and the general setup of this type of series.
Deadwind "received strong reviews" it says on Wikipedia and has 7.1/10 on imdb.
Anyway, each country has its own way of story telling. That can make one story very different.
But to be honest, if I wouldn't like Finland, snowy land, or this kind of series, I wouldn't have _finished_ Deadwind.

The plot is surprisingly unfocused at times, trying to give the main characters some space to establish their background. Sadly, it adds nothing to the story, nor to the characters. It just slows the plot down.
The acting is simply terrible for the most part, except for our two main characters. They are fine, Viitala does a good job and is a likeable actress. Tilkanen isn't too bad either but it's hard to decide whether his character is just there to enable the plot progression or not.
Considering the end I lean towards the former.
But the rest are mostly people they could have gotten off the street five minutes before they started shooting.
Korpela and the actor for Usko specifically are awful. Dialogue is nonsensically childish or surreal. Things are said that would never be said in a real conversation but they are here to provide plot relevant information for the investigation. Way too much on the nose.
Rarely there are CGI effects but when there are you can see the budget is used elsewhere.
Some of the plot is nonsensical as well, leading literally nowhere (i.e. at the end, where the actual murderer kidnaps _them_, for instance).
If this is considered relatively "good", what is considered bad in Finland?
Genuine question. It's not the worst show, though. But not really worth your time.

These two are the WORST cops ever!
She: steals cars, uses police resources for personal purposes and has a daughter who is a drug addict... who tries to smuggle a million euros of drugs from Estonia and then does a murder. And then when she gets out of jail, does it AGAIN and is accessory after the fact to ANOTHER murder. How did vetting miss all that?
He: takes heroin, sleeps with under age drug addicts. He also inexplicably drives a 100k car, steals a helicopter that he then crashes into the sea and finally sends HER daughter to jail. And he mistakes an asylum INMATE for the asylum BOSS and gets kidnapped, and loses his own gun (again) to the inmate.
They: both persistently leave their phones in the car or forget to charge them, repeatedly go into rooms TOGETHER (with huge locks on the outside) and then get locked in (with no working phone), or the aforementioned 100k car runs out of petrol, lose their weapons or fail to maintain them so they jam at crucial moments.
I notice that when Porsche took over the product placement of the 100k car from BMW, that it was no longer allowed to be unreliable. Though he did still manage to lock himself out of it, and she stole it - whilst on the run from her own police force - because he left his keys in it.
If you can suspend your disbelief through all that - and it's a big ask - it's a pretty good show, with good photography.