The smash hit Nordic noir tackles the far right, economic anxiety and environmental doom in its second season … and woolly-jumper porn tooWhen Trapped first brought ice, intrigue and one of Iceland’s leading heartthrobs to our screens three years ago, it was hailed as the sleeper hit of the winter. But, as it returned last Saturday to BBC Four, audiences were no longer asleep; in the intervening years the series has been watched by 10 million people in the UK, Germany, France and, of course, Scandinavia – and with good reason.If you’re yet to discover it, don’t hang about. The series centres on police chief Andri, played by aforementioned dreamboat Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and his colleagues on the force – sometimes farcical, sometimes touchingly familial – as they investigate some very murky goings-on. In the last series it was murders, corruption, arson and human trafficking that plagued the tiny northern town, Seyðisfjörður, that Andri calls home. Series two sees our beloved grizzly man take on another set of deeply dark happenings that torment Seyðisfjörður and its residents, his family included. Continue reading…
Via: Make Iceland Great Again! The return of Trapped, 2019's most timely show
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