Jordskott is a SwedishTV series in which police detective Eva Thörnblad investigates the death of her daughter and other strange goings on in the town of Silverhöjd. It was first broadcast by SVT in 2015. Filming took place in Sala and Ragundain the summer of 2014. The series then began broadcasting on ITV Encore in the UK on June 10, 2015, and on Canal+ Seriale in Poland on October 10, 2016. Following positive reception and strong international sales for the first series, a second series, Jordskott II, followed. It aired from 15 October 2017 in Sweden. It was then screened on ITV Encore in the UK from 19 October onwards and on Shudder in the US from 18 January 2019 onwards.
Plot
In the first season of Jordskott, police detective Eva Thörnblad, returns to her hometown of Silverhöjd, seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared beside a lake in the forest. Josefine's body was never found and local police determined that she had drowned. Upon Eva's return, a local boy is missing and she begins to look for similarities between this disappearance and that of her daughter. At the same time, she has to deal with the death and probate of her late father and his large timber felling and processing business, Thörnblad Mineral & Cellulosa. Eva teams up with Göran Wass, a Rikskriminalen detective, and Tom Aronsson, a local detective. They discover that the children's disappearance is inextricably tangled with the conflict between local and mystical elements wishing to protect the forest and the community at large, which depend on Thörnblad Mineral & Cellulosa. In season two, Eva Thörnblad is back in Stockholm, working with Göran and Tom, to find missing teenagers and to solve the mystery of a man who dies as he turns to stone. The investigation leads into her mother's past and has connections with Göran's organisation, Envoyés de la Nature.
Cast
Moa Gammel as Eva Thörnblad, a police detective from Stockholm who returns to her hometown of Silverhöjd. Eva later returns to Stockholm.
Göran Ragnerstam as Göran Wass, a Rikskriminalen detective assigned to investigate the disappearances. He is also a member of a secret society, Envoyés de la Nature or Nature's Messengers.
Richard Forsgren as Tom Aronsson, the local senior detective in Silverhöjd.
Vanja Blomkvist as Ylva, a mystic and isolated woman who lives near Silverhöjd.
Rebecka Hemse as Laila Roos, forensic examiner, Jakob's wife, member of EN.
Eric Ericson as Inge Skyllqvist, Göran's colleague at EN.
Episodes
Series 1 (2015)
Series 2 (2017)
Reception
International reviews were positive and praised the way in which the story was told over the course of the series. The New York Times called Jordskott "a police procedural with elements of contagion thriller and vampire tale," which is arranged "so adroitly that it requires surprisingly little suspension of disbelief." The Irish Examiner enjoyed how the show "slowly starts to weave subtle elements of Norse mythology into the story." The Guardian agreed, writing that the focus on mythology set Jordskott apart from other shows.
