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Industry Insiders Call for Complexity – and Honesty About Menopause – as Sex & Crime Threaten to Take Over New Finnish Shows: ‘Easy is Not Always Best’
Industry insiders talks sex & crime in new Finnish shows in Berlin, presenting Fremantle’s ‘The Revenge,’ Mediapro Studio’s “The Paradise.”
But even when playing with familiar tropes, it’s crucial to add complexity to stories and characters, Fremantle ’s Jamie Lynn argued on a roof table at the Berlinale Series Market. “Crime still works and a lot of broadcasters and platforms play it safe, but these genres can be in disguise,” noted Helene Aurø of Reinvent International Sales. Finnish investigator Hilkka Mäntymäki, who has already been through a lot, is back for a third helping of human drama and shady secrets: This time, a young Spanish man just vanishes without a trace.
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