Here’s our pick of the best Scandi crime dramas to watch on Netflix right now.
There’s something about the mix of bleak backdrops, whether it’s drizzly, gray city streets or eery volcanic landscapes brutal crimes by twisted criminals tortured detectives and often strong female leads and intriguing plots with plenty of twists and turns that keep us on the edge of our seat.īut since the Scandi crime boom, viewers have gradually started to look to the shows’ original (and often far superior) Scandinavian roots, and streaming services have followed suit.
What was once a niche, indie corner of entertainment has become a global phenomenon. starring Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman Borgen and The Bridge. Then the world became even more hooked on Nordic noir following a trio of Scandi exports-also in 2011, when The Killing was remade in the U.S. Healthcare System This story has been shared 1,862 times. Our obsession with the gloomy, gritty genre started back with Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, of which The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was the first installment, later made into a 2011 blockbuster starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. A drama about a time traveller from the post-apocalyptic future who arrives in the year 2015 on a mission to save mankind from a deadly plague that will eventually decimate 93.6 of the human race. Stream It Or Skip It: Take Care of Maya on Netflix, a Documentary Illuminating Another Terrible Flaw in the U.S. Why are we all obsessed with Scandinavian crime series? The genre has gained an international following for its dark, suspenseful, sinister, sometimes complex, always enthralling stories.
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If you’ve made that fatal mistake already, or are rapidly nearing the end of the eight-parter, then you need to get started on other Scandi crime dramas to fill the gap in your TV viewing regime. With eight hour-long episodes of Borgen: Power & Glory in the season, there’s still a fair chunk to get through-but we’ve learned the hard way that, given the highly addictive nature of this genre, we’ve been known to whiz through the shows in…oh, a day or two. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Probably the 21st century’s biggest scientific scandal is the topic of King of Clones (now on Netflix), director Aditya Thayi’s examination of Dr.
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