Burden of Justice is already a hit. More than a million Swedes — a tenth of the total population — caught the first episode of the legal drama, about a pack of ethically-challenged defense lawyers at the elite Stockholm firm Mattson & Moradi, on Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
The show has also wowed audiences at the international TV festival Series Mania, where it screened this week as part of the International Panorama program.
For a global audience that’s come to associate Nordic TV with an endless parade of noir-ish procedurals, Burden of Justice flips the script, turning the justice system itself into the crime scene. There’s no body in the field. No icy detective in a cozy knit sweater. The attorneys at Mattson & Moradi dress in Gordon Gekko power suits. They make their money searching for legal loopholes to spring their wealthy clients.
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