A new Danish series on Netflix with an engaging oral mystery

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releases new series from Denmark, Equinox, based on the acclaimed podcast, written and created by Tea Lindeburg, and produced by Dorthe Riis Lauridsen and produced by Piv Bernth and company, Apple Tree Productions with the support of ITV Studio, the production company from Denmark behind him. The Killing and The Bridge. The six-part supernatural thrush is a mysterious story led by a mystery studying folklore.

In the trailer, released a month ago by Netflix, Equinox it was similar to the next version of a German series Dark, how a short fragment suggested a similar topic explores the possibility of different facts. Equinox there is more cross between Strange things, Midsommar, without the horror, and the excellent French series The Return. Equinox setting an intriguing mystery, placing a rural story within contemporary times to explore more vivid questions, which are unfortunately still too enigmatic by the end, leaving many loose heads and questions without response.

Mar EquinoxThe first program opens, Ida (played by Karoline Hamm) celebrates her graduation with her classmates. As is the tradition in Denmark upon graduation, students from the same class ride an open – backed truck and go to the homes of each of their classmates where parents offer them food and drink. While stopping at Ida’s house, little Astrid (Viola Martinsen) hears a heated argument between her older sister and their mother Lene (Hanne Hedelund). The mother seems overprotective and anxious, not asking Ida to get back on the truck. With good reason, too, as it turns out that Ida and her 21 classmates will disappear undetected that night. Only three of the graduates are left, Jakob (August Carter), Amelia (Fanny Leander Bornedal) and Falke (Emil Mossberg Truelsen), and as Astrid finds out, it won’t be long. until they became key suspects in the disappearance of their classmates.

Twenty-one years later, Astrid is now the mother of a little girl and separated from her husband. She has a rather peaceful life, until she gets an enigmatic phone call from Jakob. Pretending to do research for a new radio program, Astrid begins to study how her sister disappeared. As the series alternates between the two time frames – 1999 and 2020 – Astrid’s research will lead her to discover the meaning of her nightmares as a child.

But as the times lengthen and Astrid unravels as she goes further down the rabbit hole to find out the truth about Ida and the day she went missing, the thing is that much clearer Equinox a story about a young girl trying to make sense of her older sister’s disappearance, while she mourns for her loss, thus falling into a country story to make sense of it.

What Equinox at the end it explores the place of oral tradition in today’s society. The characters are the story of Ostara, the goddess of Spring, who watches the characters. Of course the series is full of the signs and symbols of the story, with rabbits, hares, and the number 21, always crying somewhere in the background. It will soon be clear through a retelling of this indigenous story Equinox trying to think more philosophically, such as determination against free will, and fantasy vs reality.

Both sisters are examples of these two thought sets. Speaking to Jakob, Ida reveals how powerless she feels as everything seems predetermined. Like a tiny man locked inside a dandelion, we are all alone on our way through life, Ida laments. While Ida questions free will, her younger sister challenges what reality means. As Astrid is suffocated by nightmares throughout her childhood, questions arise throughout the series as to what it really is, as opposed to fantasy.

It is at these times in the series, when folklore meets philosophy, that Equinox it is very interesting. But, unfortunately, these intriguing philosophical sentiments, about truth, imagination, oral tradition and their origins in reality, seem to drown in such an enigmatic narrative. that it ultimately feels too long.

There is so much pressure on the chase Astrid’s character and her emotional turmoil, her sad grief, that some of these fascinating subjects feel left out by the roadside. The series feels too much like a race for the truth – a reality that is not, however, too clear before the end (the truth to where is the truth?), Since so many questions are left unanswered. Completion feels quicker than satisfying, and thus becomes less credible.

Equinox it is entirely an engaging mystery that captures various aspects of sadness. With only six programs, and a good illustration, Equinox the series are easy to connect.