With The Hartung case (Netflix) the quality of the Nordic police series is once again verified and, in addition, the great talent of the author of the novel on which it is based, Søren Sveistrup, scriptwriter of one of the essential series of the Danish audiovisual industry with an unexpected international influence, partly because of the remake American: The Killing. If we add to this that one of his best friends is Adam Price, with whom he coincided in his early days in the industry and who is the creator of another extraordinary series, Borgenit will be understood that the success of Nordic television fiction is not due to chance.
The six chapters of the first season immerse us in a terrible story with the disappearance of a girl, daughter of the Minister of Social Affairs, and a serial killer who mutilates his victims and whose business card is some dolls made with chestnuts. A story in which the main characters have spent their childhood in foster homes, an autobiographical fact of Sveistrup, that is, that he knows what he writes about. Naia Thulin is the detective in charge of the case, a woman who must also face her personal problems in relation to her daughter. Her partner, Mark Hess, is a Europol detective much criticized for not strictly following orthodox police protocols. And as far as both in The Killing like in The Hartung case, those responsible for investigations are women, Sveistrup is clear: “I prefer female detectives because they face many more things than men. To begin with, their aptitudes are questioned just because they are women.”
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