Netflix is going deeper into the Nordics with the launch of a trio of originals — including the return of romantic drama series Home For Christmas.
The streamer unveiled the titles at the opening of a new office in Stockholm. Netflix has had a base in the Swedish capital since 2021, but is moving into a new space this week.
Marking the move are Swedish drama Synden, Danish feature film Sult and Home For Christmas, which will return more than three years after season two dropped. All three will launch in 2025.
Home For Christmas Season 3 will see Ida Elise Broch returning to star as Johanne, who is now 35 and now single after a recent break up. While helping her siblings, taking care of her lonely father and landing a leadership role at work, she throws herself back into the dating scene but realises it is not what it used to be.
Writers are Siri Seljeseth, Amy Deasismont, Vera Herngren, Mari Ørstavik and Per-Olav Sørensen, with the latter also the director. Mari Nygaard is the producer with Nora Ibrahim, Trond H. Kvernstrøm and Sørensen the exec producers. The Oslo Company and The Global Ensemble Drama are making the show. Season two dropped back in December 2020.
Remakes of the show have launched on Netflix in Italy and South Africa.
Sult, from Fremantle-owned Miso Film, is based on a 2022 novel from Tiine Høeg. Itstars Rosalinde Mynster, Joachim Fjelstrup, Mille Lehfeldt, Sara Fanta Traore, Magnus Haugaard, Magnus Millang and Sargun Oshana among others. It follows Mia, a successful writer, who meets the love of her life in a charming single father. However, when it turns out they cannot conceive naturally, they turn to fertility treatment, testing their relationship and sanity as artificial hormones and scheduled sex push everything to the brink.
Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz are the writer-directors, with Jenny Mattesen and Jonas Allen the producers. Allen and Peter Bose are the exec producers.
Synden, meanwhile, hails from Sweden and comes from indie Ninjahuset.
The series stars Krista Kosonen, Mohammed Nour Oklah and Peter Gantman. When a teenager Silas is found dead at a farmhouse on the Bjäre peninsula, perpetually angry, odd but highly intelligent investigator Dani (Kosonen) teams with newly-graduated police colleague Malik (Oklah) to investigate the case.
They are led down a patriarchal rat-hole on the Scanian countryside and they soon find themselves at the center of a dark family feud that has been going on for generations. Dani, who has a personal connection to the victim, is drawn deep into the investigation and the families it centers around. The patriarch Elis (Gantman) gives Dani a deadline to solve the case before taking matters into his own hands within the family.
Peter Grönlund is the creator, writer, director and executive producer, with Bonnie Skoog Feeney and Mattias Arehn the producers.
