Nyrkki (2019-2021)

Name: Nyrkki
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2021-01-04T18:44:05+01:00
Rating: 2.75
Cast: Jessica Grabowsky, Nika Savolainen, Emmi Parviainen

Drama | 2 seasons

2 seasons

2,75 2 votes

Alternative title: Shadow Lines

State: Ended

Genre: Drama

Origin: Finland

Developed by: Alan Sim and Teea Hyytiä

Stars: Emmi Parviainen, Sampo Sarkola and Olavi Uusivirta

IMDb score: 7,1 (788)

Releasedate: Friday 4 October 2019

This TV Show is not available on US streaming services.

Nyrkki plot

Helsinki in the 1950s. It is teeming with Finnish, Russian and American spies. The Finnish capital is therefore strategically located, right on the border between the Eastern Bloc and the West. Politics and diplomacy act with velvet gloves, but are not afraid to also throw punches below the belt. In this merciless world, Helena, a young woman with a dark past, tries to find answers to the question of who she really is. She is willing to do anything to find out.

Seasons

3,00 (1)
Nyrkki - Season 1 (2019)
2,50 (1)
Nyrkki - Season 2 (2021)

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Helena Korhonen

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Fransman

35 comments
27 votes

Sunday 23 February 2025

Nyrkki season 1

The synopsis here seems to summarize it well, but in reality this series is a jumble of main and side issues, sidelines, plot twists, personal feuds and historical untruths, so that there is hardly a common thread to be found. The background is that Finland lost two wars to the Russians in the 1940s, despite bitter fighting. They paid a high price for this: the loss of the northern ice port and they were forced to accept a Russian naval base near Helsinki. The first season of this series is mainly about the return of that naval base in exchange for Finnish neutrality. But there is so much more going on.

The eight episodes of the second season are, if possible, even more confusing. They are about the fight against a secret, semi-fascist society, about the election of a new president, about Finnish and American spies getting in each other's way and so on. But it is actually mainly about the members of a kind of Finnish security service, and the dark origins of one of the members, who tries to find out who her father and mother are. The denouement takes place on Russian soil.

Hello, are you still there? That's great. Judging by the ending, it looks like a third series is in the works.