{"id":184298,"date":"2021-02-21T04:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T01:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hbo-swedish-import-series-beartown-skates-on-thin-ice\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T04:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T01:16:49","slug":"hbo-swedish-import-series-beartown-skates-on-thin-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hbo-swedish-import-series-beartown-skates-on-thin-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"#HBO Swedish Import Series &#8216;Beartown&#8217; Skates on Thin Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#HBO Swedish Import <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> &#8216;Beartown&#8217; Skates on Thin Ice<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>Up Next<\/strong>, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer reviews the Swedish adaptation of Fredrik Backman\u2019s best-selling novel Beartown, which is coming to HBO.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Scandinavian crime dramas are famous for being bleak and gripping. HBO has given viewers some of the best TV that\u2019s ever aired. A marriage between the two seems all but guaranteed to be a dark delight. Yet the Swedish import <strong><em>Beartown <\/em><\/strong>(in Swedish: <em>Bj\u00f6rnstad<\/em>), based on the best-selling novel by <strong>Fredrik Backman<\/strong>, is a reminder \u2014 for better and worse \u2014 that we play a dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> when we make assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Beartown, Sweden, is just about done for. The factory that kept their local economy afloat is failing, and their once-successful hockey team is now riddled with has-beens. The town\u2019s only hope for salvation comes in the form of Peter Andersson (<strong>Ulf Stenberg<\/strong>), a former NHL player who has just returned to his hometown to turn the local team around. He brings his family with him, including chill, music-loving daughter Maya (<strong>Miriam Ingrid<\/strong>, who seems to be Sweden\u2019s answer to Joey King). Soon, Andersson is coaching the Bears to victory with the help of star player Kevin (<strong>Oliver Duf\u00e5ker<\/strong>) and speedy underclassman Amat (<strong>Najdat Rustom<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The official de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ions for both the book and television version of <em>Beartown<\/em> are tight-lipped about the story\u2019s central conflict, but it\u2019s safe to say that if you click over to <em>Beartown<\/em> hoping for a rousing sports saga, you won\u2019t find what you\u2019re looking for. The drama uses the hockey team as a signifier of a certain type of culture, one in which crude jokes rule the locker room and the language of winning is so often framed around \u201ctaking what\u2019s yours.\u201d The series takes place around the end of an important season; if the team wins, more money will be poured into the community to fund sports and the local economy. Yet the game itself is secondary to what\u2019s happening off the rink. When a victory night party turns into a traumatic event, the town is quickly torn asunder by accusations, backstabbing, and violence, with the coach\u2019s daughter, Maya, at the center of it all.<\/p>\n<p>As with the \u201cdark Swedish import on HBO\u201d elevator pitch, this sounds a bit more thrilling on paper than it actually is. The show is as muted as its winter backdrop, blanketed not in snow but in a cool sense of grim solemnity that permeates every scene that doesn\u2019t include Ingrid\u2019s Maya. When characters do show emotion, it doesn\u2019t always ring true, as when nearly every one of the town\u2019s residents viciously turns on one character. With only five episodes to work with, <em>Beartown<\/em> has the opposite problem of so many crime dramas: it doesn\u2019t have enough room to breathe. S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped of the expansive context of a four-hundred-page novel, some characters seem one-note, while others shift alliance in ways that contradict what little we do know about them. We know that these boys would do anything to win, not because we feel or understand their emotions in any real way, but because we\u2019re told that they really want to win.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beartown<\/em> also uses the framework of rape culture and toxic sports culture to build its story, but instead of saying anything meaningful, it revels in the common misconceptions surrounding sexual violence. It\u2019s never a TV show\u2019s job to educate, but by including repeated, constant, hateful victim blaming without ever course-correcting or laying the proper groundwork to explain how it came to be, <em>Beartown<\/em> ends up feeling like a story half-told. It would be one thing if <em>Beartown<\/em> was an exercise in ambiguity, asking audiences to draw connections between the way athletes are trained and praised and the impulsive, violent acts they\u2019re drawn to off the rink. Unfortunately, the series isn\u2019t ambiguous; it\u2019s simply underwritten.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from some icily dazzling cinematography by <strong>Petrus Sj\u00f6vik<\/strong>, Ingrid is the series\u2019 highlight. Her character, Maya, is a sympathetic if familiar teen, a before-and-after picture in action. On one side, there\u2019s a young girl, her shy smile punctuated by braces, her crushes as intense as her urge to make new friends. On the other, that youthful teen has vanished, leaving a resigned and fearful stranger in her place. <em>Beartown<\/em> fiddles with hunting metaphors, and it\u2019s all too easy to imagine Maya as a prey animal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beartown<\/em> isn\u2019t all bad, and at times it is compelling. Those who go in cold will find a few grim surprises, and the final scenes include some of the short series\u2019 most effectively chilling and understated moments. Overall, though, this adaptation takes a once-rich story and strips it down until it becomes too thin to support the weight of its own heavy themes. Despite its predatory namesake,<em> Beartown<\/em> is more like a set of some small creature\u2019s footprints in the snow: there and then gone, leaving only the most minor and fleeting impression.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Beartown<\/em> debuts in America <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/beartown\">on HBO and HBO Max<\/a> on February 22nd.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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