Deadwind

Deadwind (Karppi) is a Finnish crime drama and Nordic noir television series directed and created by Rike Jokela, starring Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Jani Volanen, and Tommi Korpela. It premiered in Finland in March 2018 on Yle TV2 and in August 2018 on Netflix. The show follows Sofia Karppi, a detective of the Finnish police who is recently widowed in her 30s with a young son and teenage stepdaughter living with her. She returns to police work in Helsinki, and her first case is the murder of Anna Bergdahl, a social affairs consultant.

Season 1 received strong reviews after airing in Finland and was compared to the Danish The Killing and to the Danish-Swedish The Bridge. Season 2 of the show premiered on Yle TV on April 5, 2020 and was added to Netflix on July 1, 2020. Season 3 of the show premiered on Yle TV on October 29, 2021. Netflix announced October 29, 2022, as its release date for the third season.

Synopsis
Sofia Karppi (Pihla Viitala) returns to her work as a homicide detective in the Helsinki Police Department while taking care of two children after the accidental death of her husband. Rookie detective Sakari Nurmi (Lauri Tilkanen) is transferred from the financial crime unit to the homicide unit as Karppi's partner. Their first case begins as a routine disappearance.

Women's clothes found at a construction site lead the detectives to the body of Anna Bergdahl (Pamela Tola), a social affairs consultant. She was buried with flowers in her hands at a shore belonging to Tempo, a wind power research firm. It is seeking City Council approval for a major residential development project that will be dependent on windpower.

Anna has been murdered, and her husband, Usko Bergdahl (Jani Volanen), is confused after hearing about the incident. Karppi and Nurmi start investigating Anna's background, such as her job with the Tempo company and its critical construction project.

Cast

 * Pihla Viitala as Sofia Karppi
 * Lauri Tilkanen as Sakari Nurmi
 * Jani Volanen as Usko Bergdahl
 * Pamela Tola as Anna Bergdahl
 * Eedit Patrakka as Armi Bergdahl
 * Elsa Brotherus as Isla Bergdahl
 * Tommi Korpela as Alex Hoikkala
 * Pirjo Lonka as Julia Hoikkala
 * Riku Nieminen as Roope Hoikkala
 * Jonna Järnefelt as Linda Hoikkala
 * Raimo Grönberg as Tapio Koskimäki
 * Mimosa Willamo as Henna Honkasuo
 * Noa Tola as Emil Karppi
 * Mikko Nousiainen as Jarkko Vaahtera
 * Marjaana Maijala as Maria Litma
 * Tobias Zilliacus as Rannikko
 * August Wittgenstein as Andreas Wolf
 * Ville Myllyrinne as JP
 * Vera Kiiskinen as Raisa Peltola
 * Kari Hietalahti as Louhivuori
 * Antti Virmavirta as Lennart
 * Ylermi Rajamaa as Kiiski
 * Antti Reini as Stig Olander
 * Eero Ritala as Leo Rastas
 * Jemina Sillanpää as Laura
 * Alina Tomnikov as Iiris
 * Sulevi Peltola as Tuomas
 * Lilga Kovanko as Saara
 * Juhani Niemelä as Paavali Pusenius
 * Eero Milonoff as Jyränkoski
 * Minna Suuronen as Arjatsalo
 * Rabbe Smedlund as Fredrik Hoikkala
 * Manuela Bosco as Filippa

Production
The series was co-written by director Rike Jokela with Jari Olavi Rantala and Kirsi Porkka.

Deadwind is produced for Yle by Dionysos Films' Producers Riina Hyytiä and Pauliina Ståhlberg, and co-produced by the German company H&V Production.

Release
Deadwind season 1 premiered in Finland in spring 2018 on Yle TV2 and in the autumn on Netflix. Season 2 was shown by Yleisradio and Netflix in 2020, and Season 3 aired from October 2021.

It was distributed by the French based About Premium Content.

Reception
Season 1 of Deadwind received strong reviews and ratings in Finland after it aired on Yle TV2. It was compared to the Danish crime series The Killing and was nominated at the 2018 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize in the Best Nordic Screenplay category. Noel Murray of The Verge described the series as "realistically grim, but also offers the simple satisfaction of watching smart professionals bring some order to a chaotic world, one case at a time."

Bustle magazine's Rebecca Patton compared the show, for example, to the Danish-Swedish The Bridge series. She summarized, Deadwind is "just as compelling and addictive as its predecessors. After all, no one does brooding crime shows like the Scandinavians."