Netflix does Nordic noir right in ‘Jo Nesbø’s Detective’ series

Tobias Santelmann stars as Det. Harry Hole, and Ellen Helinder plays Beate Lønn in the Netflix series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole. Ronald Plante/Netflix

Ronald Plante/Netflix

Murder mysteries are all about the conflict between order and chaos, between the rules of society and the violence that injects havoc into the system. Nowhere does the gap between social order and homicidal mayhem seem any wider than in clean, rational, low-crime Scandinavia. This chasm gives an electric spark

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