Posts related to Scandinavia, covering travel, culture, and experiences in the Nordic countries.
Bordertown is a Finnish crime drama series. It aired on Yle from 16 October 2016 to 2020. Miikko Oikkonen created it. Ville Virtanen plays Kari Sorjonen, a brilliant detective with an unusual mind who moves his family from Helsinki to the quiet border town of Lappeenranta, near the Russian frontier.
Ride Upon the Storm is a Danish drama series. It aired on DR1 from 1 October 2017 to 2020. Adam Price created it. Lars Mikkelsen plays Johannes Krogh, the powerful patriarch of a family of Lutheran ministers in Denmark.
Occupied is a Norwegian political thriller series. It aired on TV 2 from 5 October 2015 to 12 December 2019. Jo Nesbø came up with the original idea. The show imagines a near future where Russia occupies Norway with the backing of the European Union after Norway stops producing oil and gas.
The Bridge is a Swedish-Danish crime drama series. It aired on SVT1 and DR1 from 21 September 2011 to 18 December 2018. Hans Rosenfeldt created it. A body is found on the Øresund Bridge, exactly on the border between Sweden and Denmark, forcing detectives from both countries to work together.
Modus is a Swedish crime thriller series. It aired on TV4 from 19 September 2015 to 2017. Based on the novel by Anne Holt. Melinda Kinnaman plays Inger Johanne Vik, a psychologist and criminal profiler whose young autistic daughter witnesses a murder.
Wallander is a Swedish crime drama series. It aired from 2005 to 2013, based on the novels by Henning Mankell. Krister Henriksson plays Kurt Wallander, a tired but driven detective in the small city of Ystad on the southern coast of Sweden.
The Heavy Water War is a Norwegian miniseries. It aired on NRK in January 2015. Petter S. Rosenlund directed it. The show tells the true story of the Allied effort to stop Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb by sabotaging the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork in occupied Norway during the Second World War.
Borgen is a Danish political drama series. It aired on DR1 with three seasons from 26 September 2010 to 10 March 2013. Adam Price created it. Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Birgitte Nyborg, a politician who becomes Denmark's first female Prime Minister by chance.
The Killing is a Danish crime drama series. It aired on DR1 from 7 January 2007 to 25 November 2012. Søren Sveistrup created it. Sofie Gråbøl plays Sarah Lund, a detective in Copenhagen who cannot let go of a case until she finds the truth.
Pippi in the South Seas has Pippi travel to an island with Tommy and Annika. They meet her father's people and face dangers like sharks.
In Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi sets sail with Tommy and Annika on her father's ship.
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking tells the story of a nine-year-old girl with red pigtails who lives alone in Villa Villekulla with her monkey and horse.