![]() By that point, Krogh has been abandoned by what remains of his sanity. It’s a terrific performance ( and one that made the hitherto atheist Mikkelsen find God), though both the ruff and the Church of Denmark could do with a PR makeover by the end. Krogh is a misogynist who can’t bear having a woman boss (“The bloody bitch can’t stand me!” he wails self-pityingly) and who scuppers his marriage by having it off with the gardener. Mikkelsen, who played Troels Hartmann in The Killing then went on to play a sinister Scandi baddie in Sherlock and a terrifying Russian president in House of Cards, has already won an Emmy for his performance as a man needing emergency anger management after finding himself on the wrong side of history. These confirm him not as the vital leader the church needs but as pale, male and stale. Worse yet, she sets about putting in place cost-cutting measures, such as closing churches with minimal footfall, in a way that drives him into beardy rages. ![]() Intolerably, a woman rival gets the promotion he thinks is rightfully his. Something is rotten in the church of Denmark, namely Mikkelsen’s Johannes Krogh, a charismatic patriarch who nonetheless drives his sons to tragic rebellions, his wife into the arms of a Norwegian woman, and is prone to philandering, not to mention epic booze binges when he doesn’t get what he wants.Īnd what he wants at the start of this compelling, troubling drama is to become a bishop. Sadly, any such dignity gets systematically tarnished over the course of Ride Upon the Storm. ![]() The Church of Denmark still encourages its priests to wear this concertinaed item to confer dignity to their office. Still, trust me, there’s nothing like a bit of Danish ruff. R emember a few years ago how we were all wearing Faroe Isle jumpers in homage to Sophie Gråbøl, AKA Sarah Lund from The Killing? This year I’m starting a TV trend by wearing, even as I write, a ruff like those sported by Elizabeth I and Francis Drake, now appropriated by Lars Mikkelsen, the disturbed priest in Ride Upon the Storm, a new subtitled offering from Walter Presents. ![]()
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