Lina Kuustonen as small town cop Nina in the Finnish TV series “Arctic Circle” (“Ivalo”), streaming on Topic. Courtesy of Topic
The first season of the Finnish crime procedural “Arctic Circle” (original title: “Ivalo”) has been streaming in the U.S. for a while, but I just watched it now as prep for covering Season Two. That’s fortunate. The first year introduced us to a fine protagonist in small-town cop Nina (Lina Kuustonen) who finds the remains of a hooker in her snow-covered Lapland area near Finland’s Russian border. The murder victim’s body leads to discovery of a sex trafficking ring, further complicated by a lethal, sexually-transmitted virus that threatens to spread to pandemic level. Many elements of intrigue ebb and flow for 10 episodes, embracing a number of issues that will seem even more relevant post-Covid than when originally aired in 2018, including an all-too-analogous conflict between governmental and medical priorities.
The first season of the Finnish crime procedural “Arctic Circle” (original title: “Ivalo”) has been streaming in the U.S. for a while, but I just watched it now as prep for covering Season Two. That’s fortunate. The first year introduced us to a fine protagonist in small-town cop Nina (Lina Kuustonen) who finds the remains of a hooker in her snow-covered Lapland area near Finland’s Russian border. The murder victim’s body leads to discovery of a sex trafficking ring, further complicated by a lethal, sexually-transmitted virus that threatens to spread to pandemic level. Many elements of intrigue ebb and flow for 10 episodes, embracing a number of issues that will seem even more relevant post-Covid than when originally aired in 2018, including an all-too-analogous conflict between governmental and medical priorities.
- 3/15/2022
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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