What is the best Swedish TV series?

Nordic noir gets the headlines abroad, but the home catalogue also holds teen romance, period drama and soaps that ran for decades.

1. 1
   Jordskott

   Supernatural mystery thriller about a police detective returning to her forest hometown after her daughter's disappearance.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Bron/Broen (The Bridge)

   Swedish-Danish crime drama about detectives from both sides of the Oresund Bridge hunting serial killers.
   999pts
3. 3
   Beartown

   Drama about a failing hockey town torn apart after a scandal, adapted from Fredrik Backman's novel.
   930pts
4. 4
   Young Royals

   Teen romance about a fictional Swedish prince falling for a classmate at an elite boarding school.
   818pts
5. 5
   Wallander

   Swedish adaptation of Henning Mankell's novels about the brooding Ystad detective Kurt Wallander.
   818pts
6. 6
   Torka aldrig tarar utan handskar

   Miniseries about the AIDS crisis among gay men in 1980s Stockholm.
   818pts
7. 7
   The Restaurant (Vår tid är nu)

   Period drama following a Stockholm restaurant-owning family from the 1940s to the 1960s.
   636pts
8. 8
   Fjallbackamorden (The Fjallbacka Murders)

   Crime series based on Camilla Lackberg's novels about murders in a seaside village.
   636pts
9. 9
   Sebastian Bergman

   Crime drama about a sharp, difficult criminal profiler working with a Stockholm police unit.
   636pts
10. 10
    Hem till byn

    Beloved period drama set in a Swedish village in the 1950s.
    636pts
11. 11
    Midnight Sun (Jour et nuit)

    French-Swedish crime series set in Kiruna where a murder draws detectives from both countries.
    636pts
12. 12
    Snabba Cash

    Crime series set in Stockholm's underworld following drug dealers and money launderers.
    520pts
13. 13
    Bonusfamiljen (Bonus Family)

    SVT family comedy-drama about a patchwork family navigating divorce and new relationships.
    520pts
14. 14
    Maria Wern

    Crime series about a police inspector investigating cases on the island of Gotland.
    520pts
15. 15
    Quicksand (Storst av allt)

    Netflix crime drama about a student tried for a school shooting.
    520pts
16. 16
    Springfloden (Spring Tide)

    Swedish crime drama about a Stockholm detective and a young prosecutor solving murders in a northern town.
    520pts
17. 17
    Caliphate (Kalifat)

    Thriller about a Swedish teenager recruited by ISIS and a security officer trying to stop an attack.
    382pts
18. 18
    Arne Dahl

    Crime series following a special unit of police tackling cross-border cases.
    382pts
19. 19
    Real Humans (Akta manniskor)

    Sci-fi drama set in a Sweden where lifelike robots called hubots live among people.
    382pts
20. 20
    Modus

    Crime drama following a psychologist-turned-detective Inger Johanne Vik hunting a serial killer.
    382pts
21. 21
    Beck

    Long-running Stockholm police procedural following detective Martin Beck.
    382pts
22. 22
    Rederiet

    Long-running Swedish soap opera set around a shipping company.
    382pts

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