Warning: These may cause addiction and/or nightmares. Here’s our pick of the best Scandi crime dramas to watch on Netflix right now. By Joe Allen JJust like the recent streaming hit Missing, which first came to theaters, Prisoners is enjoying a second life now that it’s available to stream on Netflix. 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. Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal and moves into their dream home, but disturbing events reveal the houses troubled history. 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. 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. 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. There isnt a poster for The Diplomat coming to Netflix, but it comes. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Exclusive: Waco: The Aftermath has proved to be a streaming win for Showtime.
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