Tag: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

  • Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, broad Danish comedy

    Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, broad Danish comedy

    Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, based on a novel by Karen Blixen, feels like a Shakespearean comedy. It uses broad strokes, outlandish characters, and funny situations to tell a story about art, seduction, and royal political shenanigans.

  • Review: The Chestnut Man, Danish noir mystery

    Review: The Chestnut Man, Danish noir mystery

    The Chestnut Man is an excellent Danish noir suspense and mystery series streaming on Netflix. A great length for binge watching with 6 episodes, the series takes the lead character, a woman police detective, through several crimes in the chase for a serial killer.

  • Review: The Rain

    Review: The Rain

    The Rain is an 8 part Danish sci-fi thriller about a rain-borne virus that wiped out much of the population of Scandinavia, and perhaps the entire world. I’m not aware of a 2nd season, but the ending left the idea open.