Ideology

• a programme like the killing would promote ideas or beliefs which are conditioned by the dominant ideology, the value system and perception of reality that in society which in this case is Copenhagen 2007, these value systems will often be encoded into the contents of the programme by the writers and producers of the show.
• the dominant ideology is encoded into the programme by its producers and writers, scaninavian cities are multiculturally diverse and progressive in terms of equality of gender in the workplace and the writers and producers of the killing are promoting this ideological message. they do this by having a strong capable female in the title role of lead detective.