![]() ![]() ![]() Jakob's friend Falke, who has a crush on Ida. Ida is the second protagonist together with her friend / boyfriend, Jakob. She is a child when her 18 year old sister Ida disappears right after graduation. The mystery slowly unfolds and they do a pretty good job with both giving you hints and keeping you guessing at the same time. People seem to complain how slow the show is, but it is actually packed full of small details and I thought the pasing was pretty good. That doesn't change the fact that there is a lot wrong with this show and the end is rather infurating and very bad compared to the rest of the show. Midsommar) and mysteries of that type you will likely very much enjoy it. If you movies and shows that are about weird cults (e.g. These comments are based on watching the series in Danish with English subtitles. Overall a solid mystery with possible supernatural elements that I'd certainly recommend. The series looks great the nightmarish dream sequences and the pagan ceremony were particularly impressive. The cast is solid, notably Danica Curcic and Viola Martinsen, as adult and young Astrid respectively and Karoline Hamm as Ida. Whether the disappearance will have a natural or supernatural explanation isn't too obvious in fact I wasn't one hundred percent which way it would go until the final scenes. The setup is interesting and Astrid's investigation and the flashback scenes gradually reveal what happened and the more we learn the more mysterious it becomes. I found this series to be delightfully strange. ![]() Intertwined with scenes of her investigation we see flashbacks to events in 1999, including a trip taken by Ida and three friends, the three survivors, to an island where they join in a pagan ceremony to the goddess Ostara on the Spring Equinox and young Astrid's experiences after the disappearance. she determines to investigate what happened. Twenty one years later she seems to overcome the trauma of losing her sister when she receives a phone call from one of the survivors. Only the driver and three members of the class remain. The group never reach their destination following an unexplained incident twenty one members of the class, including Ida, vanish. Nine year old Astrid is there to see off her sister Ida. This six part Danish series opens in 1999 a group of school children are setting off on a post-graduation trip. ![]()
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