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Outlier (2020)

Outlier poster
Genre
drama, crime
Country
Norway
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rated
16
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is murdered in a small northern Norwegian village. A police officer from outside the town thinks the local police arrested the wrong person and goes back to investigate if a serial killer is responsible.

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What happens

Outlier is a Norwegian eight-part television crime drama, which premiered on November 18, 2020 on HBO Nordic. In Australia it was broadcast on SBS-TV's streaming service, On Demand from April 2, 2021. Outlier was created and scripted by Kristine Berg and Arne Berggren. Berg and Berggren co-directed all episodes, assisted by Ken Are Bongo as co-director for three episodes. It was filmed in Troms and Finnmark regions from July 2020 for Shuuto Arctic and distributed by REinvent. Outlier's main protagonist, Maja Angell (Hanne Mathisen Haga) investigates the murder of a young woman, who was found in Maja's fictitious home village, Nerbygd, northern Norway (near actual town, Bardufoss). Nerbygd police chief, Johan (Stein Bjørn) quickly arrests a suspect – case closed. Maja believes police have the wrong man and returns to Nerbygd to determine whether the perpetrator is a serial killer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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