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Box 21
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mimosa Willamo
Mariana Hermansson
6 eps
Leonard Terfelt
Ewert Grens
6 eps
Bahador Foladi
Sam Shirazi
6 eps
Kristofer Kamiyasu
Sven Sundkvist
6 eps
Simon J. Berger
Tobias Nordwall
6 eps
Cristian Bota
Lucian Manea
6 eps
Edda Magnason
Lena Nordwall
6 eps
Sandra Andreis
Anni Grens
6 eps
Anda Sârbei
Alina Lazariuc
6 eps
Ioana Ilinca Neacsu
Lidia Amariei
4 eps
Sibylla Oarcea
School Teacher
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Box 21 actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Box 21 reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Romanian Lidia is lured to Sweden, where she is locked up and prostituted. In her search for revenge, her fate is intertwined with the police officer Ewert Gren, who chases a dangerous criminal.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E06
Janus
S01E05
Bucharest
S01E04
The Box
S01E03
Hostages
S01E01
Captives
- Directed by Mani Maserrat-Agah
- Written by Dennis Magnusson
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Jon PeterssonExecutive Producer
Writing
- Dennis MagnussonWriter
Direction
- Mani Maserrat-AgahDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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