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Young Wallander
Every case leaves its mark.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Young Wallander actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Young Wallander reads strongest on Tension, Character Depth and Cliffhanger Intensity.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
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
An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Episode 1
Rookie cop Kurt Wallander stumbles into a hate crime in his own neighborhood. As he hunts the killer, the incident fuels anti-immigration anger.
S01E03
Episode 3
Kurt interviews illegal immigrants enrolled in a program funded by Gustav Munck, and soon finds a link between a pregnant refugee and the killer.
S01E06
Episode 6
Kurt, Rask and Hemberg try to connect their new suspect to a shipment of plastic explosive — and determine where and when the bomb will go off.
S01E02
Episode 2
Promoted to detective over his best friend, Reza, Kurt joins Hemberg on the case. Clues lead them to a notorious smuggler and a popular nightclub.
S01E05
Episode 5
Suspicious of Gustav's ties to the case, Kurt jeopardizes his romance with Mona by confronting the billionaire at a black-tie, Munck family affair.
S01E04
Episode 4
Hemberg orders Kurt to take some time off after the assassination of their chief suspect. The public considers the case closed but Kurt keeps probing.
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.
Executive production
- Berna LevinProducer
Where to watch
Streaming
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