Alex review – a pitch-black thriller with a hero so dark it’s hard not to like him

Channel 4’s Scandi noir offering is fairly standard fare, but at its heart is a gripping portrayal of a very bad cop in an impossible bind

The titular character of the new Swedish crime drama Alex is a bad cop. Actually he’s a very bad cop. We are introduced to Alex as he snorts cocaine in a parked car with his (also bad) partner Martin. They have got a handcuffed guy in the boot, whom they promptly hand over to an underworld figure called Reza in exchange for a wad of notes. Then Alex’s phone rings.

“It’s the wives,” he says to Martin. “They want us to get some goat’s cheese.” You get the idea: Alex and Martin are best friends as well as partners in corruption; they socialise out of hours, and are almost never apart.

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