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Trapped on Amazon Prime Streaming

While looking for something interesting to watch yesterday, I came across Trapped on Amazon Prime. It is an Icelandic series, featuring a bunch of actors I didn't recognize. No matter, I was hooked from the get go and watched all 10 episodes before I went to bed last night. Before you read further, be warned that the show's primary language is Icelandic so if listening to a foreign language while reading English subtitles is not your thing, feel free to move on.

The show is the finest example of Nordic noir I have seen since the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The story is as chilly as the locale but it's compelling nonetheless. The protagonist, Andri Ólafsson, played by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, is the chief of a three person small town police department. He is a huge burly guy, about 6'5" by 300 pounds, who looks like a fugitive from the NFL. He is a sensitive guy, though and has an interesting but sad backstory.

The story opens with the torso of an unidentified man being found just as a big storm is set to cutoff the town. It turns out there are two criminal threads at play and the show finally unravels them. Anyway, I loved every minute of it. 10 Stars out of 10. Will be interested to learn what any of you who decided to take it on thought.
 
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I got the region B BD set and am happy to report its a nice step up in AQ and PQ. Also has a 25 min "Making of" feature.

Its amazing that most of this was filmed in the snow and cold, I don't know how they keep all that gear from freezing up.

One reviewer called this: "Agatha Christie on ice".
 
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As noted in my previous post, I loved Trapped. The unraveling of its convoluted threads was well done and made for a very satisfactory ending, I thought.

Do the BDs have lossless audio? If so, I assume it's 5.1 and I might be tempted to buy the disks. The video streamed from Amazon, though, was beautiful, very very close to BD quality. Some of the cinematography was startlingly beautiful.
 
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I love a good mystery...murder mysteries in particular in the vein of 10 Little Indians or Murder on the Orient Express...I think I'll check out Trapped...so everything is wrapped up by Episode 10 and there isn't any 'to be continued' next season type of cliffhanger crap?
 
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The Trapped BD is way cheaper on Amazon.uk. It costs only £13.99, which is $18.00 US plus shipping, which is never very much. The downside is that the Amazon.uk disks are Region B encoded so an all regions chip is required to play them. I have such a chip in my Oppo 203 so if I buy this set, I will definitely get it from Amazon.uk.
 
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I watched the first 2 episodes...I'm definitely hooked...while the characters and mystery are great, the atmosphere is the real star...I don't think I've ever seen a show set during a snowy blizzard...Iceland is a gorgeous backdrop for this...it looks gorgeous in 1080p on my new LG C7 OLED but I wish it was available in 4K w/HDR
 
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In the bonus feature on the BD they talk about the filming. 2/3 of it was actually filmed in the city, (Reykjavik), with the rest filmed in the little village. Some of the blizzard stuff was real - imaging filming that that crap. Some of the blizzard stuff they just had to turn on some fans to blow the existing snow around.
I'm thinking it was COLD work.
 
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looks like there will be a 2nd season of Trapped...in September 2016, RÚV announced that a second 10-episode season had been commissioned for release in late 2018, to feature the same lead characters facing "an even more complex and challenging murder case"

after finishing Trapped I might check out Fortitude even though it gets mixed reviews...Amazon Prime listed a bunch of 'recommendations' for me if I enjoyed Trapped...one of them is titled 'The Kettering Incident'...sounds like an interesting premise within a unique setting with a mix of sci-fi thrown in:

"Two girls disappear in identical circumstances in the wilds of Tasmania 15 years apart, and Doctor Anna Macy finds herself linked to both cases. To clear her name, Anna must delve into her troubled past and face some truths about herself and the otherworldly nature of this gothic land"
 
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finished watching all 10 episodes...5 stars...very entertaining and smart show with great characters...as far as the main murder mystery, by the end every loose end I could think of was tied up...everything made sense and the various mysteries were all resolved in hugely satisfying ways that made total sense...most importantly the showrunner played fair with the audience- clues are there from the very beginning to pick up on...references to objects and clues that initially seemed inconsequential in previous episodes (such as the toy fire engine) proved to be very important to the unravelling of the mystery...this is right up there with the very best mystery shows I've ever watched- The Missing Season 1 also was extremely clever and satisfying

if I had to pick some flaws it would be that names were hard to remember and pronounce and some of the relationships between the various characters was difficult to pick up on
 
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Yep. Regular police in Iceland don't carry fire arms. There has been one fatal shooting by a police officer in Iceland since 1944.

(UK, Norway and New Zealand also have police forces that don't routinely carry firearms. Totally changes the dynamic of our police dramas in the UK. I still vividly remember the first time I saw an armed police officer in the UK as a teenager.)
 
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Really into this series. 3 episodes in. I also enjoyed 'FORTITUDE' which is quite different, similar to Michael Crichton present day sci-fi-fi.
Another show set Northwards is 'Bordertown' set in Finland just a couple hours drive to St Petersburg, Russia. Focus is on a quirky detective and his family plus a female Dirty Harry style former Russian FSB law enforcement agent. Enjoying all these settings especially since I was in these countries this June on a Viking* Homelands Baltic cruise.



* No there's no pillaging, looting and burning of hapless European port villages as one might think
 
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Only two episodes in and surprised by how many 'current events' Trapped squeezes in: a little soft-porn in the intro, the U.S-caused banking-economic crises; Chinese expansionism; not-in-my-backyard in reply; youngster school/home bullying (hope that picked-on kid in the Arctic storm survives); divorce and its affect on kids, Euro police/legal bureaucracy (Danish search warrant required); human trafficking with sadistic bruising, etc., etc . Terrorism from Mid-east refugees could come much later, I guess. Still, it's all woven together with taste, crisp editing, and shooting expertise and shows why excellent dramas get copied here.-- John
 
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And wrt to Euro police/legal bureaucracy - worth remembering that Iceland and Denmark have a complex historic relationship, and that Iceland isn't part of the European Union (so isn't as 'integrated' into Europe as many other countries).

Iceland has a similar status in Europe to Norway and Switzerland - part of the European Economic Area, but not part of the EU itself. (The EU is what the UK has voted to leave with 'Brexit'...)
 
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I thoroughly enjoyed this series. I thank the OP for the suggestion.

The only weak moment was in episode 8.

I know it was kind of pity "screw." But, I thought Andri' and Agnes hooking up was an unnecessary plot point.

I definitely look forward to season 2, if there's one. Season 1 was based in 2015. It's now 2017. So, I'm not super hopeful.
 
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I have started watching Season 1 thanks to reading the posts about it here. Love it so far, thanks to those for mentioning it here. This is why I love AVS. I would never have noticed this gem (particularly a show that I need subtitles to watch) were it not for this forum. Kudos! I am about 7 episodes in and it seems brilliant so far.
 
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You won't be sorry if you take on Trapped. When I started it, I had absolutely no idea what it would be about. No matter, I was immediately hooked and ended up loving the whole season. Bring on Season 2!
 
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I forgot to come back around to this thread after finishing season 1. I loved it. I am glad there will be a season 2, and I certainly will be watching. Thanks again for the folks here for pointing this one out. I wouldn't have thought to even glimpse at it had it not been for the posts and good reviews here. Well worth the watch!
 
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