Years before Nordic Noir took the TV world by storm with such hits as The Killing and The Bridge, writer-director Ole Bornedal had already put the genre on the map with Nightwatch, an unforgettably ...

Nordic noir is one of the few genres of television that really prizes cliché. You almost don’t want a Scandinavian crime thriller to try anything new. You want the tortured protagonist, whose ...

The Nordic noir genre has been around for quite some time, but its popularity among American viewers has been steadily increasing over the last few years. Set in bleak landscapes, and featuring gritty ...