The Darkness - Season 1 (2024)

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IMDb score: 6,0 (1.515)

Episodes: 6

Playing time: 4 hour and 34 minutes

Stars: Lena Olin, Árni Þór Lárusson and Þorsteinn Bachmann

Origin: United States / Iceland

Releasedate: Thursday 12 September 2024

First aired on: SkyShowtime (Verenigde Staten)

This season is not available on US streaming services.

Special investigator Hulda Hermannsdóttir tackles one last cold case before she takes early retirement. It concerns the mysterious and shocking murder of a young Russian asylum seeker a year earlier. At the same time, she is also trying to come to terms with the death of her daughter. She is forced to work with a young partner but is determined to find the killer, even if it means risking her own life.

Episodes Season 1 (2024)

1. The Mountain of Pigs

1 November 2024 (46 minutes)
2. Hello Old Friend

1 November 2024 (47 minutes)
3. Beautiful Girls

1 November 2024 (45 minutes)
4. Through Me the Way into the Suffering City

1 November 2024 (47 minutes)
5. All That Is Hidden

1 November 2024 (44 minutes)
6. So Eden Sank to Grief

1 November 2024 (45 minutes)

Full cast & crew

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Lena Olin

Aki Haraldsson

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Suitehome

867 messages
614 votes

11 November 2024 at 16:15

Expectations for the six-part The Darkness are high. On board is the well-known director Lasse Hallström (My Life as a Dog) in his first international series. Lena Olin, Shetland actor Douglas Henshall and the crème de la crème of the Icelandic acting guild, including Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Trapped), also make an appearance. However, The Darkness is a bit of a disappointment. The series ticks off almost all the clichés of Nordic Noir, including the unstable detective with a range of private problems. In The Darkness, only English is spoken. A strange and unnatural choice.

Detective Hulda (Lena Olin - Hunters, Riviera, and wife of director Hallström) sinks her teeth into an ice cold case of a missing woman. Hulda is about to retire - but doesn't want to say goodbye just yet - and regularly swims in open water. The fit and expressive Olin (69) acts forced, especially in the recordings together with her serial husband Jón. Admittedly, Olin is not helped by the wooden script for these scenes.

At the same time, The Darkness has its moments. Although the series never really gets exciting, you can still call the plot somewhat surprising. The pleasant atmosphere and good flow are reminiscent of True Detective: Night Country and Karppi. But just like in the series Landscapers, the intimate family ties between the lead actor and the director (daughter Tora Hallström also plays a part) do not necessarily lead to a nail-biting thriller.

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AniSter

2326 messages
1868 votes

23 January 2025 at 08:42

Reasonable series where the story, and ending, around husband Jon was perhaps even more interesting than the story around the missing women. If the US had not contributed to this series, the result would probably have been better, because Iceland has produced some pretty good crime series. The landscape was at least about the best thing about this series. The somewhat strange ending leaves a big opening for a second season. But will that happen?

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lang pee

3245 messages
1412 votes

9 August 2025 at 21:30

Who dares to make everyone speak English, and often only in broken English! We're in beautiful Iceland! That was already a major letdown.

There was a lot more to this series, but the execution wasn't great.

As someone said, we can be grateful for the fantastic scenery and Lena Olin's performance, which makes up for something. It's no coincidence, of course, that she plays the lead role; she's the wife of the series creator.

Icelandic series are also rarely, or better yet, never, of the level of the good Swedish and Danish series....

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