Interesting TV Series with guns: Fortitude
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:05 am
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498622/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
A trailer is available at the link above. It's a British series, shot in Iceland, with British, American, and other European actors. It's a murder mystery series that ostensibly takes place on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle. The scenery is beautiful and the milieu is interesting. What drew my interest is the part that guns play in this community. Lot's of people, including children as young as 10, walk around with rifles slung over their shoulders. This is because on the island of 713 people there are 3,000 Polar Bears.
You see a 10 year old girl with her rifle in the grocery store. The townspeople carry their rifles into city Hall for a meeting with the Sheriff. People are expected to be armed. No one is alarmed by seeing someone walking around town with a rifle slung over their shoulder. In this show people call the police to report someone out on the ice that isn't carrying a gun. In one scene the police land a helicopter to question a couple of guys out on a glacier that aren't carrying rifles. The police want to know why they're not armed and end up giving one of them a rifle that is supposed to be returned to the police station when they get back in town.
OTOH, there are a few scenes where the police draw their Glocks and move around with their fingers on the trigger.....It's an adult series....some of the scenes are pretty gruesome and there is full frontal nudity. An American ex-FBI agent is a British DCI from the London Met come to the island, with the consent of the Norwegian government, to investigate the murder of a British citizen. People on the island come from Norway, the UK, and Russia. There are scenes reminiscent of an American western coupled with the we're isolated and on our own aesthetic of John Carpenter's "The Thing."
A trailer is available at the link above. It's a British series, shot in Iceland, with British, American, and other European actors. It's a murder mystery series that ostensibly takes place on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle. The scenery is beautiful and the milieu is interesting. What drew my interest is the part that guns play in this community. Lot's of people, including children as young as 10, walk around with rifles slung over their shoulders. This is because on the island of 713 people there are 3,000 Polar Bears.
You see a 10 year old girl with her rifle in the grocery store. The townspeople carry their rifles into city Hall for a meeting with the Sheriff. People are expected to be armed. No one is alarmed by seeing someone walking around town with a rifle slung over their shoulder. In this show people call the police to report someone out on the ice that isn't carrying a gun. In one scene the police land a helicopter to question a couple of guys out on a glacier that aren't carrying rifles. The police want to know why they're not armed and end up giving one of them a rifle that is supposed to be returned to the police station when they get back in town.
OTOH, there are a few scenes where the police draw their Glocks and move around with their fingers on the trigger.....It's an adult series....some of the scenes are pretty gruesome and there is full frontal nudity. An American ex-FBI agent is a British DCI from the London Met come to the island, with the consent of the Norwegian government, to investigate the murder of a British citizen. People on the island come from Norway, the UK, and Russia. There are scenes reminiscent of an American western coupled with the we're isolated and on our own aesthetic of John Carpenter's "The Thing."
