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‘Atlantic Crossing’ crosses the Atlantic April 8, 2021 Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has confirmed that its dramatization of Crown Princess Martha’s role during World War II is “mostly fiction.” The NRK series Atlantic Crossing is now being aired on PBS’ venerable Masterpiece Theater in the US, where hundreds of thousands of Norwegian-Americans may not be aware that it’s far from being factually correct. Some scenes from NRK’s series Atlantic Crossing are undeniably based on real events, like this depiction of the royal family’s triumphant return to Norway in June 1945, ...

BRUCE R. MILLER To play Franklin Roosevelt in “Atlantic Crossing,” Kyle MacLachlan could have looked at dozens of award-winning performances. Instead, he leaned into Ken Burns’ documentary on “The Roosevelts” and pored over Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography. “The research, for me, was really one of the greatest joys,” MacLachlan says during a Zoom interview. “The challenge, of course, is to get inside the person and figure out the psychology and the ‘why,’ you know? Just having footage of Roosevelt moving through space, how he ...

Number 1 on this list had to be the seminal Nordic Noir cross-country crime drama, The Bridge. Created by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein and Hans Rosenfeldt the series begins when a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Øresund Bridge – right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. The Swedish and Danish police are called to the scene. What at first looks like one murder, turns out to be two. The bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. This spectacular double murder is just the beginning of a wave of violence the like of whi...

Forget The UK Royal Scandal Headlines; 'Atlantic Crossing' Focuses On The Norwegian Monarchy Fighting The Nazis Secret, and Home Fires were all very successful shows for the network. However, the story of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (Sofia Helin) being offered refuge by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Kyle MacLachlan) is arriving at a time when current events may make the plot a harder sell to many loyal PBS viewers. Most reviews would focus on analyzing the strong ensemble cast and the cinematography that carefully recreated 1940’s Norway, America, and the UK. However, Meghan M...