Viaplay, the Nordic streamer that is a big producer of original programming, has launched its service in the U.S., promising consumers Nordic Noir hit content and “premium Scandinavian storytelling” ...
Murders, mysteries, crime cartels, crooked cops and complex heroes: From Nordic noir to reindeer noir, there’s a world of ...
Nete Schmidt explores why Scandinavian crime stories have become best sellers worldwide. Nete Schmidt, faculty associate emerita in German, Nordic and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...
One of the best-known Nordic noir dramas in recent years, The Åre Murders was also released earlier this year and was based on the Viveca Sten murder mystery novels Hidden in Snow and Hidden in the ...
Often used to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, the "noir" genre rose to prominence in the 1940s and 50s, with many American thriller or detective films capturing the attention of worldwide ...
An umbrella term for dark psychological crime films that are produced and set primarily in Scandinavian countries, Nordic noir (or Scandi noir) isn’t, strictly speaking, a genre, but it is one of the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of people around the world have become avid fans of what is known as Nordic Noir detective and crime stories set in Scandinavia, with the next question after whodunit being ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Viaplay, which has 7.3 million subscribers, hopes to differentiate itself with Nordic Noir and Scandinavian storytelling. But even in its local content, "we aim to have broader appeal," says exec ...
It may be getting warmer outside, but there’s always room in our icy cold hearts for the frozen tundras of Nordic noir. The genre, which tells dark and twisty investigative crime stories in brutally ...
We’re back for season three of this dark – very dark – Finnish thriller. Did I mention that it was dark? In the opening episode of the third season, we negotiate kidnapping, rape, murder, suicide by ...