In some parts of Sweden, and Scandinavia at large, the summer sun blazes down from the small hours of the morning until 10 at night. In January, some areas are bathed in perpetual darkness. For a ...

The Nordic noir genre has been steadily increasing in popularity with American audiences in recent years, thanks in part to streaming services making the great shows more readily available to ...

An umbrella term for dark psychological crime films that are produced and set primarily in Scandinavian countries, Nordic noir (or Scandi noir) isn’t, strictly speaking, a genre, but it is one of the ...

What do the TV series Broadchurch, Marcella and Mare of Easttown all have in common? These top-rating shows have all been influenced by the genre of Nordic or Scandi noir. And its tropes of disturbing ...

Netflix has added Secrets We Keep, a new Nordic noir thriller, which the streamer hopes will match the success of recent global smash The Åre Murders. While The Åre Murders was set in Sweden, we're ...

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Naia Thulin (Danica Ćurčić) and Mark Hess (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard) seatd side by side on a log in The Chestnut Man. Image Via Netflix Sometimes dubbed Scandinavian noir, Nordic noir has a long and ...

This article was originally published February 28, 2022. It has been updated with additional series, including Netflix’s new Nordic noir The Åre Murders. If you’re a fan of mysteries and are looking ...

University of Wollongong provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. You know how it starts: a drone shot across an expanse of grey water under a leaden sky accompanied by eerie music and a ...

No reindeer, no snowflakes. Not a hint of blue or cream. Sofie Grabol, aka Sarah Lund of The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen), is wearing a black cashmere sweater and black trousers. This is Nordic noir ...

Wendy Lesser’s new book, “Scandinavian Noir,” dissects and investigates a genre with which the author grew obsessed long before it became a global phenomenon. (Read the Times’ profile here.) It all ...