This Underrated Netflix Crime Drama Is What You Need After True Detective’s S4 Flop

Summary:

• Deadwind, also known as Karppi, is a Finnish crime drama that has been on the air for 3 seasons from 2018 to 2021.
• The show has been very well critically acclaimed and compared to such crime series as the Danish-Swedish The Bridge.
• Deadwind is available to stream on Netflix.

For a long time, many people thought HBO's True Detective was the best crime drama on television. For the first few seasons, that was still true. The last season, however, split viewers in half. Night Country, which started out as a great, intriguing story, led to a very controversial finale.

"Honey, they did it to themselves" was not the answer to the crime that many expected to see at the end of the story.

While some praised the season's showrunner, Issa López, for making a truly bold decision to make viewers rely more on their own perceptions rather than stated facts, others simply didn't feel that the season had any closure.

If you're closer to the second camp and want to see something as satisfyingly clever, but just as dark and brooding, as Night Country was, Netflix has the perfect series for you. Strap in for a wild ride through snowy Finland.

Is Deadwind a Good Show?

Finland may not be as icy as Alaska, but Scandinavian TV productions know how to keep viewers glued to their screens. Beautiful scenery, noir-style visuals and inventive camera angles are not the most important parts of Deadwind, but they certainly make the show more alluring.

With an overall audience score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, the show is praised for the complexity of its characters and their undeniable chemistry.

At first, Deadwind follows detective Sofia Karppi as she stumbles upon the body of a woman on a construction site. Eventually, she's joined by another rookie officer, Sakari Nurmi, as her partner. As the two solve the mystery of the woman's death, Karppi gets closer to finding out the truth about another loss in her personal life.

The show has lasted for three full seasons, the first of which aired in 2018 with 12 episodes, and the second and third with 8 episodes each. Even though the arc of the main characters comes to an end in the series finale, many viewers claimed that they would watch another three seasons just because of the quality that Deadwin offers.

If you are interested to see what Finnish crime drama Deadwind has to offer to its viewers, you can go ahead and stream all three seasons of the show on Netflix today.