Bulgarian crime drama 'The Devil's Throat' ticks many of the expected boxes: a lengthy twelve episodes a dramatic setting, a female savant-detective, a serial killer on the loose, a tricksy plot linking politics and crime, and a generous sountrack comprising not-particularly congruous western pop music. My guess is that the writers have definitely seen 'The Killing', among other precedents. The plot takes good advantage of the setting, a one-horse town where the male protagonist, the local detective, is the son of the local prosecutor and mayor-elect: although there are many red herrings on the way, its final resolution makes a fair degree of sense. Ultimately, what separates it from the best of the genre is that you can never quite escape the sense that everything is set up and manipulated. These days, long running series such as these are very much in vogue; but perhaps there is a taughter tale in here it would have been better to have told.
(D)evil's Throat: Djavolskoto Garlo
(2019– )
Interesting elements but transparently manipulative
17 October 2021