Five things to watch this week
Scandi noir, Lionel Messi’s World Cup, life on earth after accident in space, American Samoa soccer team and the deep roots of the violence in the DRC
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Jo Nesbo’s bestselling Scandi noir set in the ruthless, mercenary corporate world was previously adapted as a film in 2011. Now it gets the limited series treatment in this Norwegian language adaptation starring Axel Bøyum as Roger Brown, a hustling late capitalist self-inventor, who, after he lands a job as a headhunter at a prestigious firm, finds his lifetime of lies swiftly catching up to him and threatening to upend his life and the lives of those around him. Black-humoured, darkly noirish and satisfyingly entertaining and twisty, it’s an enjoyably cynical dissection of the underbelly of modern corporate life and the eternally glittering power of money to make us do terrible things...
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