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As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town's small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can't leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable. A mutilated and dismembered body washes on the shore, an unidentifiable man murdered only hours ago. The local police chief, Andri Olafssun, whose personal life is in shatters, realizes a killer has descended into his town. As word spreads, order disintegrates into chaos as the ferry's passengers and the town's residents realize they are all possible suspects and that a killer is trapped among them.

A police investigator named Arnar travels from Denmark to assist in the investigation surrounding Iceland's first serial killer. He works with Kata, the officer in charge of the case, and together they must race against the clock to find the murderer before it's too late. While the victims initially seem unrelated, the trail leads them to an abandoned boys' home named Valhalla, where some horrifying events occurred 35 years earlier.

When Ditte Jensen retires with honors from the Danish Secret Service, she plans to tend to her garden and live out her life in anonymity. But Ditte cannot stop being who she is: an elite soldier and a warrior. Soon, the apartment building becomes a battlefield for a better world. With her deep-rooted sense of justice, she sees her neighbors' problems and feels compelled to help - whether they want her help or not. And in her world, the end justifies the means. Always.

When Reykjavik crime detective Helgi Marvin Runarsson is called in to investigate a suicide case on Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the case turns out to be far from simple. Pulled into a sinister trail of evidence, Helgi's own deeply hidden secrets are unearthed. Will Helgi turn a blind eye to murder in order to save the life of his daughter?

Talented chef Jónas, falsely imprisoned, tries to regain his family's trust. Shunned by society, he accepts illicit funds to open a restaurant, leading him to money laundering. This jeopardizes his parole, life, and loved ones.

After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sent to serve time in Iceland's only women's prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. But no-one knows that she harbours a dark secret that could tear her family apart, a secret that could set her free.

Benedikt becomes Prime Minister after an unorthodox approach to politics earns him the nation's support. But when it is discovered that Benedikt suffers from bipolar disorder, his team and allies are forced to endanger the stability of the government and their private lives to hide the truth.

Icelandic series set in 1983-91. Friends renew an old trawler and start fishing. All goes well until the quota system is introduced and plunges them, and everyone else in Iceland, into a crisis.

Forbidden to laugh is a new series in which Auðunn Blöndal invites the 25 funniest Icelanders to five different dinner parties. There, the only rule is that it is forbidden to laugh and only one person advances in each episode to the last dinner party. By its very nature, the jokes can get pretty dark, so it's not a family show at all.

This is the Icelandic equivalent of The Office, with a much more interesting twist: the protagonist is a woman.