With original boundary-breaking content, thrilling plots and charismatic actors, Danish television series have captivated audiences worldwide in recent years. Danish shows, with both exoticism and gritty realism, have quickly soared in popularity beyond their initial local Scandinavian viewership, Pia Jensen, an Aarhus University communications associate professor specializing in television series, told AFP. Long known for the Nordic noir crime genre, the big international breakthrough for Danish shows came with “The Killing”, a hard-hitting series following a Copenhagen female cop’s investigations. Mikkelsen “has set new standards for the portrayal of a main character in a TV series”, the show’s creator Adam Price told AFP. That was the perfect ground to tell (a story) about masculine relationships, the competitive gene between men in a family,” Price said.

Source: Egypt Independent January 06, 2019 03:11 UTC