It feels as if it has been quite some time since the Nordic noir powerhouse produced any real TV bangers, with the exception of bleak Danish drama Prisoner, which came to the UK earlier this year. End of Summer is adapted from the bestselling crime novel by the Swedish writer Anders de la Motte and it is another solidly OK psychological thriller. It hangs around the fringes of darkness, but rarely revs up enough to pull away from a collection of familiar thriller tropes.
In the mid-00s, a woman named Vera (Julia Ragnarsson) works as a grief counsellor in a psychiatric hospital, where a man with a clipboard conspicuously supervises her group, taking notes on what she is up to. Vera is under supervision, having slept with a patient at her old practice, where she lost her job and her licence. That hasn’t stopped her being allowed to run a group for grieving psychiatric patients in a hospital setting, but perhaps they are very short staffed.
