I've been looking forward to review this series and maybe get others to give it a try as well. It's one of my favorites lately for a good reason. The truth is, I'm fed up with movies and series made in the US, thus turning to European productions instead.
Scandinavian crime novels are famous, have read a few of those stories and watching them as movies or series is even better.
The Åre Murders (Swedish: Åremorden) is a 2025 Swedish Nordic noir television series starring Carla Sehn that premiered on Netflix on 5 February 2025. It is based on the Viveca Sten murder mystery novels Hidden in Snow and Hidden in the Shadows.
Police officer Hanna Ahlander has been suspended from her job in Stockholm and dumped by her partner when she moves to her sister's vacation home in Åre. When a young woman goes missing on the icy night of Lucia, Hanna can't help but start investigating the case. With a tough family situation and an understaffed police station, local police officer Daniel Lindskog reluctantly has to accept Hanna's help. But the big question is whether they can trust each other.
Carla Sehn is playing Hanna Ahlander, a Stockholm detective on leave. Hanna arrives in Åre after being investigated at work and being dumped by her boyfriend. Åre should be a place for her to relax, get herself together and heal her wounds, but things rarely turn out as planned. The night she arrives to her sister's vacation house, which is lovely by the way, a teenage girl goes missing and Hanna too gets the Amber alert.
She doesn't think twice and instead of resting, the next day she volunteers as a search party, to help find the missing girl, but as the local police is short staffed, she apply for a temporary post in Åre, to help them out. The team seems happy to get a new member, but things are never as simple as people think, so Hanna is going to face some difficulties in this regard.
The series is not fast paced and this is a very good thing as the writers gave time for the story to unfold and also paid a lot of attention to the details. I particularly enjoyed watching the Scandinavian lifestyle, as much as time permitted. It's totally different from what we're living in the rest of Europe and it shapes how the story is written as well.
So after Hanna gets the police chief approval, she starts working with the team on the missing person's case, hoping to find the girl. Hanna's skills and attention to details become obvious from the start, but some trust issues appear between her and Daniel, the local police team leader leader, which luckily gets sorted.
It was really nice to see a different type of police work. Covering vast snowy areas in a place where the sun rises when people are already at work and sets way before people leave work require a different approach. Åre is a small community, where word travels fast, which is why deep secrets are kept behind closed doors, which makes the police's job more difficult, but two good detectives as Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog do their job well.
The two lead actors could not be more different, and their character as well, but I have to say thank you for the director for casting them as there's a certain chemistry between them and both are prefect for the role.
A big plus here is that the series is not focusing exclusively on the case as it plays attention to the character's personal life and social issues as well.
As I don't speak Swedish, I chose English as preferred language and can honestly say the English dubbing is excellent. I'm sure it adds a lot of value to the series and I'm glad as it'd be a shame to ruin a good series with a low quality dubbing.
If you like Nordic noir, Scandinavian life and lifestyle, you're going to like this series too, so give it a try. The Swedish countryside is lovely by the way.
It is rumored that season two is coming, so I'm anxiously waiting to be released and I just hope it's going to be as good as the 1st one. Till then, I'm sure I'm going to watch this season again.
My rating is obviously 10/10, or 100/100, as you wish as i can't give less to it.
Rating: 100/100
Originally posted through scrobble.life/tv.
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