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Genre | Crime drama, thriller |
Created by | Ina Bruhn |
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Country of origin | Denmark |
Original language | Danish |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
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Running time | 45 minutes |
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Release | 1 March 2019 |
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Those Who Kill (Danish: Den Som Dræber), distributed as Darkness: Those Who Kill (Danish: Den Som Dræber - Fanget af Mørket) in some regions, is a Danish crime thriller television series created by Ina Bruhn and produced by Miso Film and Viaplay/Nordic Entertainment Group. It was released on Viaplay in the Nordic countries on 1 March 2019 and has since been broadcast/streamed in several other countries. The series revolves around criminal profiler Louise Bergstein's (Natalie Madueño) attempts to link unsolved murders. The series is a reboot of the crime thriller of the same name that was created by Elsebeth Egholm and aired on TV 2 in 2011.[1][2] The second season has been sub-titled Blinded: Those Who Kill in some regions, and the third series has been sub-titled Lost: Those Who Kill.
After spending six months unsuccessfully trying to find 17-year-old Julie Vinding (Alvilda Lyneborg Lassen), who went missing on her way home from a party in a Copenhagen suburb, detective Jan Michelson (Kenneth M. Christensen) is taken off the case by his superiors who believe the girl is dead.[3] Michelson continues to work on the case in his spare time and discovers the disappearance of Natasha, another 17-year old blonde girl, ten years earlier.[3][4] He quickly finds Natasha's body in a lake and is re-instated on the case.[3] Michelson's boss MT (Peter Mygind) brings in criminal profiler Louise Bergstein (Natalie Madueño) to assist in the investigation.[3][5] When a third blonde girl, hotel worker Emma Holst (Tessa Hoder), is kidnapped, the investigators discover that they may be hunting a serial killer.[3]
After returning to Funen to see her mother's friend Alice Ejbye (Solbjørg Højfeldt), Bergstein is asked by Ejbye, who has terminal cancer, to investigate the unsolved murder of her 18-year-old son Markus Ejbye (Vilmer Trier Brøgger) five years earlier.[6][7] Bergstein soon finds similarities to unsolved murders of two other young men on the island, Kasper Larsen (Téo Lepetit) and Ricky Hansen (Peter Zandersen), that also occurred five years earlier.[6][8] When a fifth young man, William Fjeldby (Oscar Dyekjær Giese), a friend of Markus Ejbye, is murdered in similar circumstances, she teams up with Karina Hørup (Helle Fagralid), the lead detective on the cases, to track down a serial killer who has resumed killing after a five-year hiatus.[6][7]
Season 1 was released in the Nordic countries on the Viaplay streaming service on 1 March 2019.[9][10] NPO 3 started broadcasting season 1 in the Netherlands on 20 April 2019.[11][12] In the UK BBC Four started broadcasting season 1 as Darkness: Those Who Kill on 31 August 2019.[13][14] In Australia season 1 premiered on SBS On Demand on 18 December 2019.[15][16] In Germany it started streaming as Darkness – Schatten der Vergangenheit on the Joyn Plus+ service on 26 November 2019.[17] In Spain Filmin started streaming season 1 as Darkness: La Huella del Crimen on 3 March 2020.[18][19] Arte broadcast season 1 in September 2020 as Le Tueur de l'Ombre in France and Darkness – Schatten der Vergangenheit in Germany.[20][21]
Season 2 started streaming on Viaplay on 28 March 2021.[8][22] Sub-titled as Blinded: Those Who Kill, season 2 was broadcast on BBC Four in the UK and streamed on Acorn TV in the US in May 2021.[7] It is to be streamed on Joyn Plus+ in Germany from 17 June 2021.[23]
Season 3 was broadcast on BBC Four in the UK starting on 8 April 2023 and was sub-titled as Lost: Those Who Kill.
The series was nominated for the Best TV Series (Årets tv-serie) award at the Danish Film Academy's 2020 Robert Awards.[24][25] Tessa Hoder was nominated for the Best Danish Actor (Årets danske skuespiller) award at TV 2 Zulu's 2020 Zulu Awards.[26][27]