Anton Berg and Martin Johnson in "Pray, Obey, Kill." (HBO) HBO/TNS Debuting this week on HBO Max, the five-part docuseries âPray, Obey, Kill,â is a new crime series that fuses the trends of true crime and Nordic noir. Directed by Henrik Georgsson, who also directed episodes of the blockbuster Danish/Swedish crime series âThe Bridge,â âPray, Obey, Killâ tells the story of a 2004 murder committed in the small village Knutby, Sweden. Itâs a befuddling crime, in which a man and a woman are both shot in different homes at the same time, with the investigation turning toward a young female nanny and the female murder victimâs husband, the pastor of a small Pentecostal church.