In Season 3, Durham County focuses on a task force that covers crimes along the 401 highway corridor. Mike Sweeney, now the Superintendent of the Durham police precinct, is on this force, which, when the episode opens, is investigating the murder of two young drug runners. Mike wonders whether these deaths are warnings to other runners or the beginnings of a gang war. Mike’s challenge is how to get through the language barriers and trace the crimes to sources, which may be here or overseas. Durham, because of its proximity to the 401 corridor, is a transportation hub, one stop on a crime corridor. Nothing has roots here, but everything passes through.
Ivan Sujic (ex-military), partners with Mike on the task-force investigating the drug-trafficking murders. Mike quickly learns that Ivan is distraught because his wife, Katya, is missing and didn’t return from a trip to the United States. The friendship between the two men, a friendship that grows and deepens, also becomes for Mike, a murder investigation. Mike suspects that Ivan’s troubled brother-in-law, Miro, may have something to do with Katya’s disappearance and that Ivan may know something about it.
The cast:
Hugh Dillon as Mike Sweeney
Michael Nardone as Ivan Sujic
Hélène Joy as Audrey Sweeney
Laurence Leboeuf as Sadie Sweeney
Greyston Holt as Ray Prager Jr
Krista Bridges as Sabina Leung
Bénédicte Décary as Eva Arcady
Andreas Aspergis as Miro Çercu
Cicely Austin as Maddie Sweeney
Episode 1 'Homelands' - here are the new kids in town:
Sabina - Eva - Miro - Ivan
The familiar Sweeney family:
Mike - Sadie - Audrey
And one of the main players, this creepy county:
Laurie Finstad Knizhnik about violence and the darkness of the series:
"The reason why Durham County is an analysis of violence in the society is because this idea wasn't the reality of other dramas you see. In fact, many TV series or even films do talk about the presence of violence in people's behaviour, but they don't look at the way how people actually feel when they confront violence. [...]
TV is a medium that allows us to elaborate a hypothetical analysis of how people would feel if they were put in tragic and depressing circumstances. I'll also add that this dark atmosphere even allows a multi-dimensional depiction of the female characters in a show that deals with violence. With that said, the idea of creating Durham County was born because I didn't want to create another show that just uses women as mere props who witness violence or are, on the surface, victims of it."
Source: The Cultural Post
I'll try to post a summary of the reactions, reviews and interviews from last weeks later on.
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