Fredrik Backman s best-selling novel gets the small-screen treatment with this grim, underwritten adaptation.
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Up Next, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews the Swedish adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel Beartown, which is coming to HBO.
Scandinavian crime dramas are famous for being bleak and gripping. HBO has given viewers some of the best TV that’s ever aired. A marriage between the two seems all but guaranteed to be a dark delight. Yet the Swedish import
Beartown (in Swedish:
Björnstad), based on the best-selling novel by