WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Jordskott is a thoughtful, compassionate take on how working for the (Swedish) police uniquely equips one to love and lose and obsess. It is also about trees that would like to eat you, and those are not actually incompatible stories. It's a Scandinoir drama in terms of frame: a detective returns to her childhood home to deal with her father's company after his recent death, the childhood home she's been avoiding ever since her daughter vanished there years ago. But dealing with the company means dealing with (among other things) witches, a sentient forest, her father's crimes, her daughter's not-quite-ghost/not-quite-self, and a supernatural environmental group. It's about the horror of love and the love of difference and grief and memory and has a wonderful amount of care for women/children/refugees/brainbads who are painted as villains in two many police dramas.
Anyway. More people should come have feelings about women and girls and the forests that would like to eat them because they love them. It's a Swedish show but there's English subtitles, and it's somewhat? short - there's two seasons, 10 and 8 episodes so far, and I highly recommend it for anyone who likes fairytales, mysteries, horror, unique police dramas, and female characters
WHERE CAN I FIND IT? ITV Encore in the UK and Shudder through Amazon Prime in the US and ... other places in other places?
shrubbery ate my baby: Jordskott
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Jordskott is a thoughtful, compassionate take on how working for the (Swedish) police uniquely equips one to love and lose and obsess. It is also about trees that would like to eat you, and those are not actually incompatible stories. It's a Scandinoir drama in terms of frame: a detective returns to her childhood home to deal with her father's company after his recent death, the childhood home she's been avoiding ever since her daughter vanished there years ago. But dealing with the company means dealing with (among other things) witches, a sentient forest, her father's crimes, her daughter's not-quite-ghost/not-quite-self, and a supernatural environmental group. It's about the horror of love and the love of difference and grief and memory and has a wonderful amount of care for women/children/refugees/brainbads who are painted as villains in two many police dramas.
Anyway. More people should come have feelings about women and girls and the forests that would like to eat them because they love them. It's a Swedish show but there's English subtitles, and it's somewhat? short - there's two seasons, 10 and 8 episodes so far, and I highly recommend it for anyone who likes fairytales, mysteries, horror, unique police dramas, and female characters
WHERE CAN I FIND IT? ITV Encore in the UK and Shudder through Amazon Prime in the US and ... other places in other places?