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Finn Families Woebegone
Never has the phrase “It’s grim up north” been truer.
★★☆☆
UK Channel 4, streaming now
► Creators Lassi Vierikko, Petja Lähde
► Cast Elena Leeve, Ville Virtanen, Turkka Mastomäki, Pihla Viitala
EPISODES 1.01-1.08 It’s been 14 years since Danish crime drama Forbrydelsen, aka The Killing, brought the term “Scandi noir” to British vocabularies. Since then, many other European shows have honed in on its gloomy vibes but added a supernatural twist – Germany’s Dark, for example, or Iceland’s Katla. Even Sky tried it with Arctic-set tripe Fortitude.