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Trapped
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Andri Ólafsson
28 eps
Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir
Hinrika Kristjánsdóttir
28 eps
Hans Tórgarð
Engineer
10 eps
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Ásgeir
20 eps
Sólveig Arnarsdóttir
Halla
10 eps
Dar Salim
Jamal Al Othman
10 eps
Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir
María
10 eps
Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir
Aldís
10 eps
Jóel Sæmundsson
Þór Snædal
10 eps
Elva María Birgisdóttir
Þórhildur young
20 eps
Baltasar Breki Samper
Hjörtur Stefánsson
20 eps
Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir
Agnes
10 eps
Aron Már Ólafsson
Víkingur
10 eps
Bjarne Henriksen
Carlsen skipstjóri
10 eps
Þorsteinn Bachmann
Sigurður
10 eps
Pálmi Gestsson
Hrafn
10 eps
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson
Eirikur
10 eps
Hanna María Karlsdóttir
Þórhildur eldri
10 eps
Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir
Kolbrún
10 eps
Jóhann Sigurðarson
Leifur
10 eps
Magnús Ragnarsson
Friðrik
10 eps
Kristján Franklín Magnús
Guðni
10 eps
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Trausti
18 eps
Stormur Jón Kormákur Baltasarsson
Aron
10 eps
Kara Ingudóttir
Sóley
8 eps
Steve Lorenz
Björn Weissmann
6 eps
Thorunn Erna Clausen
l'avocate
1 eps
Guðrún Sesselja Arnardóttir
avocate
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Trapped actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Trapped reads strongest on Tension, Character Depth and Bingeability.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
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
The body of a murder victim turns up in a small Icelandic village just as a major snowstorm cuts the region off from the rest of the world.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 28 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201510 episodes
7.3IMDbA small town inspector's list of suspects grows as he becomes ensnared in a web of secrets and betrayals involving a mysterious death.
Best episode · S01E10 Episode 10
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201810 episodes
7.4IMDbA sheep farmer's attack on a government minister leads Andri to Iceland's remote highlands, where a worker at a local power plant is found murdered.
Best episode · S02E10 Episode 10
Season 3 · Complete
Entrapped
20218 episodes
6.7IMDbPicking up two years after the second season, police duo Andri and Hinrika get drawn into a war in the remote highlands, where two rival groups fight over specific pieces of land, but for very different reasons.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E10
Episode 10
After an exhausting and traumatic search, at some personal cost, the local police are finally close to solving the murder that set off the string of terrible events in their little town.
S01E07
Episode 7
The weather is finally improving and the investigation team from Reykjavik arrives. It seems as though real progress is going to be made. But are some things just too good to be true?
S01E05
Episode 5
The avalanche has caused a total blackout. Plunged into darkness, the town's inhabitants are anxious and afraid. Meanwhile, the mayor has a surprise visitor.
S01E09
Episode 9
Having found the key to the padlock of Hrafn's shed, Andri has a definitive clue to the identity of the murderer - but it's not who he was expecting. The identity of the killer will send shockwaves through the town and Andri faces some very difficult decisions.
S01E06
Episode 6
Amid general disquiet, the town's inhabitants gather in the church, where they demand answers. Police chief Andri Olafsson is tasked with speaking to them and he must tell the truth.
S01E02
Episode 2
With no police support able to arrive from Reykjavik until the snowstorm clears, Andri and his colleagues need to work fast. It seems a hopeless situation, but with a suspect in custody awaiting questioning and a body awaiting forensic tests Andri is desperate for them to prove themselves and make a breakthrough in the case.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
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.
Writing
- Baltasar KormákurWriter
- Clive BradleyWriter
- Sigurjón KjartanssonWriter
Direction
- Baltasar KormákurDirector
- Óskar Thór AxelssonDirector
- Ugla HauksdóttirDirector
- Börkur SigthorssonDirector
- Baldvin ZDirector
Music
- Jóhann JóhannssonOriginal Music Composer
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