#369: Arctic Circle (Season 1)

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When is the last time you watched a really good Nordy Noir set in some frozen tundra? Well, never fear, we are going to take you along with us to Finnish Lapland to meet Officer Nina Kautsalo, who is trying to figure out why young Russian women are being murdered in her tiny village of Ivalo bordering the Arctic Circle. Are they being sex trafficked? And is something even more terrifying afoot? Nina has a lot on her hands, she's a single mom to beautiful 6 year old Venla, she's trying to keep her ailing mother and rebellious sister safe -- plus she's a hard working cop smarter than her superiors. You will love the characters, layered story line and the fact that most of the show is spoken in English. (Speaking of layers! Lisa is loving the sweaters in this series.) Season one of Arctic Circle is available on https://www.topic.com OR on Amazon Prime with a free trial of the Topic streaming platform. Criminally good tv and film from around the world!

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:10.0	We're conducting an investigation. Human trafficking.
0:16.0	The blood sample came from a Russian prostitute.
0:19.0	We're checked.
0:22.0	I think it's the same virus.
0:23.0	So what's the worst case scenario?
0:25.0	M.O.P.
0:56.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, retired at the app profile, a former Mixley prosecutor and right producer of CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:04.0	What's with me today is?
1:05.0	I'm Lisa Zambetti. I'm the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds and the host of Killer Casting and the casting director for the Netflix film Us, which I'm so excited about.
1:16.0	And it's very apropos of what we're going to talk about today because there's a character very much like one of the characters in this show.
1:23.0	Oh, we're going to talk about that.
1:24.0	Okay, interesting. Well, Laura unfortunately can't be here today. She's actually one that turned us on to this series and wanted us to discuss it and expose this very interesting Nordic noir series to our listeners.
1:41.0	So here we go. It's called Arctic Circle. And do we know when it's going to be out?
1:46.0	So Arctic Circle, the first season aired in 2018 and you can watch it now on topic and you can also if you're if you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you can also get topic through Amazon crime. So you can certainly do it now.
1:59.0	And I think season two has dropped like in the last couple days and topic full disclosure is our new sponsor, which is completely coincidental.
2:07.0	But it's great. Well, we were able to bring them on because we loved the series so much. We brought them on as a sponsor and it's so cool because we had watched this series and we got an advanced copy so that we could watch it and we loved it.
2:25.0	And it's not what you expect from a traditional Nordic noir. It has all that. But it has so much more.
2:33.0	And it's like, you're going to be trying to drive very hard not to be too spoilerish. But we want to talk about the characters and setting and everything that's so cool. So I know you're just dying to talk about.
2:43.0	I'm dying.
2:44.0	The setting.
2:45.0	Oh, yes. So one thing I'm going to tell people is that there's a lot of reasons why you should watch this. I mean, if you love crime shows, this is your jam.
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