Indeed, architecture is so integral to the Scandinavian TV canon that two of that founding trio were named after spectacular structures: the five-mile Öresund Bridge that connects Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmö in Sweden and the Danish government’s Christiansborg Palace, known informally as Borgen. In terms of architecture, The Truth Will Out fully conforms to genre expectations, from the functional exteriors of looming government buildings to the cool uncluttered premises of flustered suspects. Already a smash hit in Sweden, The Truth Will Out has just appeared on Walter Presents.Ġ5:05 'We knew we were the best': original drama from Sweden - video In classic Nordic-noir style, it uses the fraught relationship between demoted murder detective Peter Wendel and his public prosector ex-wife to expose high-level governmental corruption. Sweden’s latest export is The Truth Will Out, a gripping detective drama based on the true story of one of the country’s most famous miscarriages of justice. If it’s harder to name the big breakthrough Scandi shows these days, that is only because there are so many more contenders. That 2011 invasion has now given way to a steady flow. However, Nordic noir still seems to be going from strength to strength. It’s a version you like to spend time with because it’s tidy, it’s orderly.”īut are we still spending as much time with our Scandi mirror-selves in 2020? It is true that lifestyle magazines have got over their craze for “hygge”, a term meaning anything cosy, cuddly or convivial and, yes, Ikea recently announced its first major UK store closure.
This pared-back Scandinavian look triggers something.
“But it also has beautiful aspirational interiors. “Scandinavia has the same level of slightly gloomy, desaturated, rainy, cold, foggy, darkness,” he says. Photograph: Tine Harden/DRĪccording to Walter Iuzzolino, of Channel 4’s foreign-language, on-demand strand Walter Presents, these shows held up “a very interesting, distorted mirror” to the British soul. Relentless jumper wearer … Sofie Gråbøl as detective Sarah Lund in The Killing.
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