Stella Blómkvist is a Scandinoir detective series with Heida Reed as the sleuth & the femme fatale, with one massive amoral streak.
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Mare of Easttown was a massive hit on HBO earlier this year, one of the first successful uses of the Scandinoir dynamic: a grim, downbeat cop thriller with deep emotional dives Naturally, there was immediate talk about a second series, even though series creator Brad Ingelsby had originally said the series was intended to be[...]
The Burning River is a buzzed-about 2020 cop drama from China that looks heavily influenced by grim and gritty British cop shows and Scandinoir dramas For some reason, all Chinese TV dramas have an abstract-sounding title that doesn't always tell you what the story is There is no river that catches fire on this show[...]
The series was influenced by the gleeful grimness of Scandinoir, in fact, co-created by a Scandinoir writer Hans Rosenfeldt, who created The Bridge, with Nicola Larder The main difference was that the title character was a policewoman who suffered blackouts and tended to wake up covered in someone else's blood Those bits felt mawkish and[...]