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Netflix has also commissioned a fourth season to debut in 2022, so now is the perfect time to get caught up with the 30 episodes that already exist. And lucky for you, Borgen has just been added to Netflix globally for the first time.
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Nevertheless, if you’re only going to watch one Danish drama, it should be the political series Borgen, which ran for three seasons from 2010 to 2013 and is sort of like The West Wing with more shady dealings and coincidences. Not all of these series are good - some are quite bad, actually - but you can feel smart for watching them all the same. The typical Danish hit is one that takes wild swings when it comes to telling stories, then is given the patina of prestige by virtue of its high production values and European veneer.
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(I watched the first several episodes to prepare for The Killing’s launch in 2011.)įorbrydelsen typified the Danish drama: It was full of plot twists, hints at character motivations, and wild coincidences.
The original Forbrydelsen has still not been made available in the US, despite having been remade here. When the series debuted in the UK in 2011 and became a smash hit, it paved the way for it to become an international sensation and therefore create many copycats. If this sounds at all familiar, that’s because it was remade in the US as the AMC (and, later, Netflix) series The Killing. The first Danish series to gain international renown was the 2007 show Forbrydelsen, which followed the investigation of a single crime, with each episode chronicling a day in the investigation. The storytelling tropes of these series soon spread to basically every other country in Scandinavia and, later, Western Europe, because creating a series in the vein of Danish drama was an easy way to become prestige-adjacent.
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For a time, some of the most acclaimed hour-long TV series in the world were coming out of Copenhagen, with many of them remade by American TV networks. One of the most significant trends in global television in the 2010s was one that almost no Americans noticed: the rise of Danish dramas. In each edition, find one more thing from the world of culture that we highly recommend. One Good Thing is Vox’s recommendations feature.
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