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13 Icy Nordic Thrillers to Get You Through the Winter
Cold weather and cold murders.
While The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher’s movie based on the best-selling books by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, catapulted Nordic noir into the Zeitgeist, the series that set the blueprint for televisionwas Denmark’s The Killing. While this is a Nordic-style slow burn and touches on many real issues — crime, climate change, class structure, corporate greed — it also incorporates supernatural elements that provide a number of jump-out-of-your-seat moments. Brand new to Netflix, this detective series is set in the Tatras Mountains of Poland (and the show reminds you by noting the sea level in each scene) and features a free-wheeling investigator who isn’t, shall we say, a team player and might also be a drug addict.
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