I love the whole 'Scandi-noir' genre and have pretty much scraped that barrel by now I should think. This one was a little different in that it focussed a lot more than usual on how seeing and working with these kinds of crimes actually affects the people that have to do so. The cumulative reactions of the leads to professional or home-life horror after horror was very believable, and affecting too. I'd say this show was up there with the best of the genre and the only thing stopping me giving it 10/10 was the slightly bad taste left by the killer in the over-arching story managing to get away with it all. (Or at least as far as we get to see - it's hinted that his conscience might get him yet.) I don't want to be a total grimness-monger, but it would have somehow fit better with the tone of the show if that had not ended quite so apparently well for him either. But if you like it dark, and Nordic - you'll struggle to do better than this.
Review of Sthlm Requiem
