# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published October 21, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-swedish-tv-series*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Jordskott** — score 1000/1000
   Supernatural mystery thriller about a police detective returning to her forest hometown after her daughter's disappearance.
2. **Bron/Broen (The Bridge)** — score 999/1000
   Swedish-Danish crime drama about detectives from both sides of the Oresund Bridge hunting serial killers.
3. **Beartown** — score 930/1000
   Drama about a failing hockey town torn apart after a scandal, adapted from Fredrik Backman's novel.
4. **Young Royals** — score 818/1000
   Teen romance about a fictional Swedish prince falling for a classmate at an elite boarding school.
5. **Wallander** — score 818/1000
   Swedish adaptation of Henning Mankell's novels about the brooding Ystad detective Kurt Wallander.
6. **Torka aldrig tarar utan handskar** — score 818/1000
   Miniseries about the AIDS crisis among gay men in 1980s Stockholm.
7. **The Restaurant (Vår tid är nu)** — score 636/1000
   Period drama following a Stockholm restaurant-owning family from the 1940s to the 1960s.
8. **Fjallbackamorden (The Fjallbacka Murders)** — score 636/1000
   Crime series based on Camilla Lackberg's novels about murders in a seaside village.
9. **Sebastian Bergman** — score 636/1000
   Crime drama about a sharp, difficult criminal profiler working with a Stockholm police unit.
10. **Hem till byn** — score 636/1000
   Beloved period drama set in a Swedish village in the 1950s.
11. **Midnight Sun (Jour et nuit)** — score 636/1000
   French-Swedish crime series set in Kiruna where a murder draws detectives from both countries.
12. **Snabba Cash** — score 520/1000
   Crime series set in Stockholm's underworld following drug dealers and money launderers.
13. **Bonusfamiljen (Bonus Family)** — score 520/1000
   SVT family comedy-drama about a patchwork family navigating divorce and new relationships.
14. **Maria Wern** — score 520/1000
   Crime series about a police inspector investigating cases on the island of Gotland.
15. **Quicksand (Storst av allt)** — score 520/1000
   Netflix crime drama about a student tried for a school shooting.
16. **Springfloden (Spring Tide)** — score 520/1000
   Swedish crime drama about a Stockholm detective and a young prosecutor solving murders in a northern town.
17. **Caliphate (Kalifat)** — score 382/1000
   Thriller about a Swedish teenager recruited by ISIS and a security officer trying to stop an attack.
18. **Arne Dahl** — score 382/1000
   Crime series following a special unit of police tackling cross-border cases.
19. **Real Humans (Akta manniskor)** — score 382/1000
   Sci-fi drama set in a Sweden where lifelike robots called hubots live among people.
20. **Modus** — score 382/1000
   Crime drama following a psychologist-turned-detective Inger Johanne Vik hunting a serial killer.
21. **Beck** — score 382/1000
   Long-running Stockholm police procedural following detective Martin Beck.
22. **Rederiet** — score 382/1000
   Long-running Swedish soap opera set around a shipping company.

Tags: tv shows, thriller, crime, sweden