Those Who Kill (2019 TV series)

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 [da] 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.

Those Who Kill
Den Som Dræber
Genre	Crime drama, thriller
Created by	Ina Bruhn [da]
Written by	Ina Bruhn Tine Krull Petersen Per Daumiller Bo Hr. Hansen [da]
Directed by	Carsten Myllerup Jonas Alexander Arnby Goran Kapetanović
Starring	Kenneth M. Christensen Natalie Madueño Signe Egholm Olsen [da] Mads Riisom [da] Tobias Santelmann Helle Fagralid Solbjørg Højfeldt Simon Sears
Composers	Jeppe Kaas [da] Mikkel Hess
Country of origin	Denmark
Original language	Danish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	24
Production
Executive producers	Nanna Mailand-Mercado Fredrik Ljungberg Jakob Mejlhede [da] Marlene Billie Andreasen Camilla Rydbacken Filippa Wallestam
Producers	Jonas Allen Peter Bose Zire Schucany Caroline Schlüter
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	Miso Film Viaplay/Nordic Entertainment Group
Original release
Release	1 March 2019 (2019-03-01)
Related
Those Who Kill

Plot

Season 1

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]

Season 2

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 3

Cast and characters

Season 1

• Kenneth M. Christensen as Jan Michelsen
• Natalie Madueño as Louise Bergstein
• Signe Egholm Olsen [da] as Stine Velin
• Mads Riisom [da] as Anders Kjeldsen
• Peter Mygind as Møller Thomsen "MT"
• Uffe Rørbæk [da] as Dennis Højbjerg
• Tessa Hoder [da] as Emma Holst
• Regitze Estrup [da] as Gitte Hermansen
• Maibritt Saerens as Anette Karlslund
• Dorte Højsted [da] as Bente Velin
• Peter Plaugborg as Mikkel Velin
• Peter Damm-Ottesen [da] as Ole Velin
• Alvilda Lyneborg Lassen as Julie Vinding

Season 2

• Natalie Madueño as Louise Bergstein
• Tobias Santelmann as Peter Vinge
• Helle Fagralid as Karina Hørup
• Solbjørg Højfeldt as Alice Ejbye
• Kasper Leisner [da] as Torben Vissinge
• Jens Andersen as Søren Dedenroth
• Louis Næss-Schmidt as Johannes Vinge
• Josephine Park [da] as Masja Zelinsky
• Henrik Prip as Leif Halborg

Season 3

• Natalie Madueño as Louise Bergstein
• Simon Sears as Frederik Havgaard
• Alex Høgh Andersen as Bjørn Jepsen
• Thit Aaberg as Maria Jepsen

Release

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.

Reception

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]

References

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22. Jerichau Roslev, Trine (4 November 2019). "Den som dræber – Fanget af mørket får en sæson 2" (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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27. Buchard, Amalie (14 February 2020). "REPORTAGE: Zulu Awards 2020 – en hyldest til dem, der lytter og ser med" (in Danish). Århus, Denmark: Gaffa. Retrieved 2 June 2021.

External links

• Darkness: Those Who Kill (2019) at IMDb  
• Den Som Dræber - Fanget af Mørket on Viaplay
• Darkness: Those Who Kill on BBC Four
• Blinded: Those Who Kill on BBC Four
• Lost: Those Who Kill on BBC Four