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Creators Maria Nygren and Tove Eriksen Hillblom talk about their tale of two sisters navigating the glitch between who they are and who they want to be.

10/03/2022 - The eight-episode project, directed by Eddie Åhgren and portraying the complex balance between family life, self-fulfilment and social pressures, is now filming in Stockholm

10/03/2022 - The eight-episode project, directed by Eddie Åhgren and portraying the complex balance between family life, self-fulfilment and social pressures, is now filming in Stockholm

10/03/2022 - The eight-episode project, directed by Eddie Åhgren and portraying the complex balance between family life, self-fulfilment and social pressures, is now filming in Stockholm

10/03/2022 - The eight-episode project, directed by Eddie Åhgren and portraying the complex balance between family life, self-fulfilment and social pressures, is now filming in Stockholm

Desde la ya clásica e imprescindible Wallander a Katla, de Capitani a Arenas movedizas, el policial que viene de los países nórdicos tiene todos los condimentos para atraparnos y hacernos jugar a los detectives - LA NACION

In Beartown, Hockey is everything. The small Swedish town’s hopes and destiny are tied to its hockey club’s success and failures. In comes Peter Andersson (Ulf Stenberg), a recent NHL retiree and Beartown native, who is tasked with turning the team around and hopefully the town’s fortunes with it. A horrific crime shakes the city’s foundation just as the junior hockey team starts rising through their league, calling into question the town’s toxic culture. The first scene of the first...

HBOs Beartown, Marin Ireland, and the Power of an Audiobook Narrator Friday Night Lights but with hockey, and like FNL, you don’t actually need to understand or love the sport to appreciate it (I do not, for instance, watch hockey). The novel is about a small town in Sweden that is utterly obsessed with hockey. The one NHL star that the town produced, Peter Andersson, returns from Canada to coach his old team back to greatness, and he has a 17-year-old phenom named Kevin Erdahl to build his...

comments Beartown is dying. Its an industrial Swedish town where actual industry is on the decline and development has stalled or even reversed. Sometimes it feels as if the surrounding forest, thick with knobby spruce trees, is encroaching on the city, like nature has forgotten anyone lives there at all. But for Beartown (or Björnstad) residents, there remains a glimmer of hope for the towns future: its junior hockey league.  "Beartown," the new five-episode HBO limited series from Sweden, c...

Fredrik Backmans best-selling novel gets the small-screen treatment with this grim, underwritten adaptation. HBO Welcome to  Up Next, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews the Swedish adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel Beartown, which is coming to HBO. Scandinavian crime dramas are famous for being bleak and gripping. HBO has given viewers some of the best TV that’s ever aired. A marriage between the two seems all but g...