Sorjonen – Finnish Netflix series.
My wife and I started watching the Finnish Nordic Noir series Sorjonen (also known as BorderTown) season 2 tonight. Let’s start with some confessions.
- We don’t have a television.
- We prefer to watch movies at the cinema. The whole family. We have seen most of the Marvel, Pixar and Disney movies in the cinema.
- But we do buy pirate DVD once in a while here in Lima for 1US$ each to watch on the computer. It is convenient, but not very legal.
Now shoot me! - We don’t have a Netflix account, because we get addicted. I am probably the person in the family which would suffer from addiction more than anyone, even though I am getting better at managing screen time lately.Furthermore, the series and films we want to follow, rarely have license in Peru. Hence, nothing Scandinavian or Irani on Netflix, that we love so much. I have subscribed twice for a trial month to Netflix only to find that I hate the selection available in Peru.
- I do have Amazon Prime (mostly for the free shipping), but we have not watched a single show yet. Again, I am afraid to get addicted.
- We downloaded some Scandivian crime series from ThePirateBay.org. So we have seen The Bridge, Wallander, Borgen and The Kiling (Forbrydelsen)…and of course the Millenium trilogy (the latter at the cinema!). These probably don’t need an introduction, but if you missed any of them…. GET THEM. They are very good.Of course this is a copyright breach….and I plead guilty, but living in Peru, trying to consume Scandinavian culture is not easy.
Last night, I was in murky waters even though I was not saving anything on my computer. We used a service which provides series… I mean all series available from streaming services…. for free!
It can’t be legal…. but it is convenient… especially if you do not speak English, becuase all the series are either dubbed or subtitled into Spanish.
As I mentioned above, it was season 2 of Sorjonen which runs on Netflix. We had downloaded the first season some months ago, but when we wanted to start the second season we noticed there was hardly anything available for download.
The service is called Series24. Be aware you have to click through some porn advertising before anything happens. Check on Netflix if it is available in your country.
The plot is somewhat similar to that of the Bridge in that the main character detective Kari Sorjonen, has mental disorder that makes him extremely sharp for details, but socially a bit akward. The plot is set in Lappeenranta, a border town close to Russia. Sorjonen – a workaholic – takes a position here to have more time for his family. Little did they know…..