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#crimefiction #televison: The Mire: Millennium (2024)

The Mire: Millennium is show-runner Jan Holoubek’s long awaited follow up to two splendid series -The Mire ’87, and The Mire ’97. Indeed, The Mire: Millennium is the final part of a trilogy which stands up well on his own but is more greatly appreciated if you are familiar with the previous two seasons.

As with those previous two series, a police investigation digs up long-buried dirt on the lives of the inhabitants of small town in Poland. The series’ narrative threads are interwoven tightly, along with strands from the previous two series.   

The Mire: Millennium is set at the cusp of the last century, a pivotal time in Polish history, which is smartly reflected over the series’ eight episodes. But there are also fantastic sequences set in 1963 which are brilliantly recreated slices of history as well as being important parts of the backstory.

Performances are again uniformly strong withMagdalena Różczka, Łukasz Simlat, andAndrzej Seweryn being particularly excellent. Filip Pławiak playing the young version ofPiotr Fronczewski’s hotel manager makes a hell of a strong impression too.

Once again there is a great sense of time and place, with the small-town setting being an important character, a remarkable visual aesthetic, and a beautifully atmospheric score from Jan Komar and Malgorzata Penkalla. The Mire: Millennium really is cracking stuff.

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