7.045 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
LatestWhile Lifjord is shaken by another tragedy, Aksel calls the police and demands his brother's release. The only people with a motive for killing Helene are William and Eva, who knew the truth and could expose their lies.
After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.
Acting
Broch's restrained desperation in every micro-expression
Cinematography
Norway's beauty weaponized against its protagonist
Writing
Town-as-villain premise executed with painful precision
Creators
Anna Bache-Wiig, Siv Rajendram Eliassen
Nicolai Cleve Broch
Aksel Borgen
Tobias Santelmann
Erik Nilsen
Synnøve Macody Lund
Tonje Sandvik
Lena Endre
Eva Hansteen
Ingar Helge Gimle
William Hansteen
Henrik Rafaelsen
Lars Hansteen
Anne Marit Jacobsen
Mai-Britt Nilsen
Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Inger Moen Hansteen
Susanne Boucher
Helene Hansteen
Amrita Acharia
Amina Sahir
Anna Bache-Wiig
Marianne Eriksen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Norwegian drama that interrogates 'dugnad' community spirit as sinister conformity rather than wholesome cooperation.
Creator Siv Rajendram Eliassen specifically wanted to explore how acquittal legally clears you while socially executing you permanently.
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