Some invitations you shouldn't accept. In episode 2 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Netflix), Harry hits rock bottom — he loses the case, his job, Oleg's trust, and nearly Rakel, while Tom Waaler walks free. We talk about how the episode turns Waaler from a corrupt colleague into something far more dangerous, and what it means when the keys travel from Oleg's hand to the pub floor to Tom's pocket to Rakel's front door. We also dig into Harry's one-sided voicemails to his dead partner Ellen Gjelten, and why they're doing so much of the show's storytelling work without a single line of exposition — plus the religious symbolism piling up around the murder that episode 3 is clearly setting up to detonate.
Stay to the end for our three takeaways from the episode.
Note: contains spoilers for episode 2 only.
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