Swedish and Norwegian content dominates this month’s column, as we look at September’s international releases, which can be found on Scandinavian streaming platform Viaplay and Netflix.

On 1 September, End of Summer premieres on Viaplay. The series is set in Sweden in the late summer of the 1990s. The missing-person psychological drama plays out as 14-year-old Vera refuses to bring her little brother Billy with her when going out, which results in his inexplicable and devastating disappearance. Fast forward two decades, and we see a familiar young man bring the now adult Vera back to her hometown. There, she is driven to unravel the mystery of Billy’s fate.

Norwegian drama/comedy series In the Name of Love (I kjærlighetens navn) premieres 8 September on Viaplay, with two episodes released weekly, concluding at the end of the month. It has been described as an unconventional coming-of-age family story. A mother and primary school teacher, who is also a feminist, is desperately trying to keep where the family’s wealth comes from a secret, until the estranged father crashes a family reunion and spills the beans: it was his porn business started in the 1970s that made the family rich. Will this revelation change the family forever

Swedish rom-com Diary of a Ditched Girl (Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig) arrives on Netflix on 11 September. In the series, which has a title that literally translates as “Half of Malmö consists of guys who have dumped me”, we follow 31-year-old singleton Amanda. Determined to find love, she hits the bars and uses online dating apps. However, she struggles to move past the first date and, along with her friends, begins to question what love really is and why it is so hard to find.

Scandinavian film and TV: March 2024

Anders Lorenzen is a Danish blogger and film and TV enthusiast living in London.

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