Monday, July 27, 2020

REBECKA MARTINSSON, Series 2 (Acorn TV Exclusive, Foreign Language, Swedish, with English subtitles)

Trailer

"In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka" (The Wall Street Journal)

This riveting Scandinavian crime thriller revolves around high-powered Stockholm lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, who reluctantly returned to her remote hometown of Kiruna in northern Sweden after the murder of a childhood friend and then worked there as a public prosecutor. In series 2, Rebecka (new lead Sascha Zacharias, Primetime Murder), changes her mind about returning to the city, stays put in her old town and moves into her grandmother's house in Kurravaara, with dog Snorvalpen ("Little Terror") and her neighbor Sivving to keep her company. Meanwhile, questions about her dark past and troubled childhood continue to occupy her mind. Her anxieties about truly fitting in and if she made the right choice to return to her roots in Kiruna have grown worse. As a prosecutor, Rebecka is unorthodox, vigorous and very effective - the four new cases this season are more emotionally and professionally challenging than ever before, including an ugly unravelling of an old family feud, a discovery of a woman's body after a hotel demolition and a new influx of hard drugs among the local teenagers. The series is based on �sa Larsson's popular crime novels. (8 EPS, 2020)