Viaplay
The last five years or so have seen PBS and PBS Passport join the foreign language series fandom as part of public broadcasting's shift to streaming. The Channel 4 series Walter Presents (which brings the best of European programming to the U.K., the same way Masterpiece brings
Viaplay
Don't look now, but yet another mystery series from the 1990s/2000s is getting a revival. Wallander, the franchise based on bestselling author Henning Mankell's series of novels, which has thus far produced two globally-acclaimed Swedish detective series (and one ill-fated prequel), is back. Returning to
Viaplay
Since the BBC picked up the new adaptation of the mystery series Rebus from producer Viaplay, we have been keeping an eye on it. Hailing from Sweden, Viaplay is a highly niche streaming service focusing on Nordic Noir offerings; its programming often runs parallel to the stuff we cover at
Viaplay
Are we far enough away from the pandemic outbreak that countries can start making their own television dramas about nationwide responses to novel diseases? That’s what happens in The Fortress, a Norwegian thriller that’s somewhere between disease thriller and conspiracy drama, imagining a completely walled-off Norway in 2037,