If you want a breezy binge-watch over the weekend while the weather cools down, then Channel 4 has you covered with another international offering from their Walter Presents collection.
The Marnow Murders, a "complex" crime thriller from Germany, is now streaming in full on the service, with the six-episode second season being added today. The first season, which consists of eight instalments, has been available since 2023.
The series follows Detectives Lona Mendt (Petra Schmidt-Schaller) and Frank Elling (Sascha Alexander Gersak) as they investigate crimes in the city of Schwerin, with one recurring arc seeing a serial murderer be on the loose.
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"Detective Elling has money troubles. His partner Mendt takes a big risk with a subordinate. How will these issues affect them on a dangerous case?" reads the synopsis for the first season.
The logline for the second season, which aired in Germany in 2024, reads: "Cops Elling and Mendt are critically injured and a key witness vanishes when a witness protection action ends in disaster. Can a new team untangle the mess?"
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Though not widely reviewed by critics, The Marnow Murders has been lauded by viewers since its premiere in 2021, with IMDb currently reporting an impressive user rating of 7.3/10 from 1300 logs.
One fan praised the first season in an 8/10 review, writing: "As others have wrote here before, great actors, great scenery and excellent camera work. In addition, a story that's almost as captivates as a Hitchcock, from the first to the last moment."
This sentiment was echoed by another viewer, who wrote: "The central mystery was intriguing and had some good twists and turns before the truth is revealed. The opening scene immediately grabs the viewers' attention and get them hooked."
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"The setting adds to one's enjoyment: forests, lakes and some impressive old buildings... not everything east of the old Iron Curtain is grey concrete as those us who grew up before it fell imaged at the time. Overall I'd definitely recommend this," they added.
Elsewhere in the Walter Presents collection, there is "mysterious" Bulgarian crime thriller The Devil's Throat, the "gripping" Norwegian corporate drama Ammo and Dutch psychological thriller The Adulterer.
The Marnow Murders is streaming on Channel 4.
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