Martin Hoyle Review

• Audience?

  FT weekend readers.

  Hoyle lexical choices suggest an assumed audience with shared cultural limier.

  Assumed audience of watchers of season 1
• Purpose?

  To evaluate series,, to persuade to watch the second season.
• Context?

  TV, Radio and film critic = has credibility

  Nordic noir = popular crime genre
• Mode + genre conventions

  Credible TV Show review

  Intertextual references

  Summary

  Mixture of register

  Descriptive language
• Voice?

  Evaluative (positive)

  Informal

  Dramatic (hooks)
• Key techniques?

  Juxtapositions throughout

  Echoes the stories narrative
• 'we plunge into the dark world of terrorism, mass killing and poisonous grudges underlying humane, orderly Nordic society.'

  'we plunge' collective pronoun

  Syndetic listing creates a sense of scale of sinister society