Scandi noir: suggestions

[MarkWithaC]

I need a good, bleak Scandi thing to get my teeth into. Doesn't have to be new to telly/streaming, just new to me. Please don't just tell me to check out Walter Presents – I try, sometimes, but I'm getting a bit noir-blind with choice!
Let me hear your actual personal favourites.

Those I have loved include:
The Killing (the original and best IMO)
Trapped
Borgen (Yes, I've seen the newer/comeback season, about Greenland, too)
The Bridge
Those Who Kill
The Out-Laws
Rebecka Martinsson Arctic Murders
Ride Upon the Storm
The Legacy
Floodland

I know not all of these are technically Scandi, or technically that bleak, but basically I mean quality foreign drama, ideally featuring combination of some or all of nice interiors, nice threads and windswept/snowy/dramatic/melancholic landscapes.

TIA!

For myths and legends you'd enjoy Katla.

Yeah, I also really liked Follow The Money

Not Scandi but the new series of True Detective - Night Country - is set in Alaska and has a similar feel. It's very bleak. It's on Sky but I watch through Now TV.

The Bridge
Astrid

It was actually filmed in Iceland though, standing in for Alaska. So it’s more Nordic than you might think!

I didn't realise that! Maybe that's why there are so many UK actors in it - closer to the UK than the US. It looks cold, dark and unpleasant wherever it is.....

A little article about the filming:
https://www.icelandair.com/blog/jodie-foster-interview-true-detective/

How did I not know about Walter Presents? 😳
@MarkWithaC I might now have to give up work just to watch all these things 😂 Started Snow Angels last night and loving it, after a run of crappy police box sets doing my head in (Paranoid and Stay Close etc) thank you for starting the thread!

From the above, I didn't finish Deadwind. There's filmed on a budget and then there's people running round the same stairwell for an entire series. It might have got better though.

It is a slippery slope 😀 I’d love to give up work to watch gloomy subtitled dramas.

Spoiler: we stuck it out and it didn't. We played a game of guessing whose turn it was to get bonked on the head.

I just remembered the name of a Polish series that we loved: The Mire.

This was fantastic !

Engrenages ( Spiral )
Braquo
All 3 Wallender series. They all have a different vibe

Can I recommend Gomorrah. Mafia drama set in Naples. It's bleak
And Locked Up. Spanish prison drama

Finished Snow Angels last night.
Blimeyheck that was good. And bleak.

I think it takes very good writing and acting for me to find even heinous people likeable. (except for Alice's whiny husband, he can do one)

@PickAChew good to know!

Can't praise Spiral enough!
Follow the Money was excellent, eso series 1.
Currently enjoying Nordic Murders on C4 (Walter Presents). It's set on a Baltic island, so not technically Nordic if I'm being pedantic!
Also enjoying Hidden Assets, not Scandi but Irish-Belgian. Just started watching season 2 (iPlayer).

The Golden Hour, about a terrorist attack is very good. Dutch, not Scandi and on Netflix. Ten times better and more realistic than Trigger Point.

Oh,I loved Nordic Murders. Fantastic area and scenery. I thought I'd watched it all, but now I look I think there's a fourth season I've yet to see. Yay!

That was actually German, wan't it, IIRC?

Don't know the details of who produced/financed it etc, but it was set on an island that appeared to be part-German, part-Polish (it opens with a murder in a border town and both lots of police have to get involved). The dialogue IIRC was a mix of Polish and German. It's really interesting.

Although not Scandi but French...I concur with previous posters on Spiral (Engrenages) brilliant series loved it.

If you haven't watched Bad Sisters...(set in Ireland but taken from a Scandi book I believe) ...then make a point of watching it..loved it too.

The US/Canadian version of The Killing is very good. Set in Seattle & quite scandi noir. It's on 4.

I watched Bad Sisters, yes. Loved it. There's a second season coming, apparently.
Is it from a book? The TV show was based on a Belgian original that Walter Presents also showed, the Out-Laws. That may have been based on a book though, I don't know.

Recommend the By the Lake trilogy on Walter presents: Vanished by the Lake, Killer by the Lake and Fear by the Lake (in that order!). All set around beautiful Lake Annecy.

Think I may have watched the first season, or started it but not finished for some reason. I do remember a thriller with that beautiful scenery.