Wisting is a Norwegian police procedural television series, broadcast by Viaplay and TV3 starring Sven Nordin as William Wisting, a senior police detective in Larvik, Thea Green Lundberg as his daughter, crime journalist Line Wisting, and (until the third season) Carrie-Anne Moss as visiting FBI Special Agent Maggie Griffin.
[1] The first series of ten episodes is based on two novels by Jørn Lier Horst, The Caveman (2013) and The Hunting Dogs (2012).
[12] This series is based upon the novels The Inner Darkness (2019) and The Night Man (2009), broadcast in Scandinavia from December 26, 2021 and April 2022 respectively.
The series was broadcast on BBC4 in the UK from October 15, 2022 and Australia via SBS on Demand from February 24 and June 23, 2022 respectively.
Stavanger Aftenblad commented that it was "intricate and riveting", Jyllands-Posten called it "a sure winner" and Aftenposten praised its "nonstop momentum".
[18] Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Dorothy Rabinowitz found the series "seamlessly woven" and "superbly layered".
What did Scandinavian film-makers think they were ever doing, 80 years of existential angst and Death playing nihilist chess, before remembering: we have crime.