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Trapped

★ 8.0 27K votes 2015–2021 3 seasons · 28 episodes Ended RÚV
Nordic noirScandinavian-style crime: somber, procedural and socially aware.This show: 10/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 9/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 8/10Small townA tight community where everyone knows everyone.This show: 8/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 7/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Ólafur Darri ÓlafssonIlmur KristjánsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonGuðjón PedersenIngvar SigurdssonElva María Birgisdóttir
Written by
Baltasar Kormákur
Starring
Ólafur Darri ÓlafssonIlmur KristjánsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonGuðjón PedersenIngvar SigurdssonElva María Birgisdóttir
Written by
Baltasar Kormákur
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
02505007501k

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About

"A snowbound town where everyone is a suspect"

A dismembered body turns up in an Icelandic fjord town just as a ferocious snowstorm cuts off all roads, trapping locals, visitors and a suspected killer together. The local police chief, underqualified but doggedly persistent, must untangle old grudges and buried secrets before backup can arrive. The show moves slowly and deliberately, leaning on bleak, wind-battered landscapes and a thick sense of claustrophobia rather than jump-scare twists. It's less about shootouts than about watching a small community's paranoia and history curdle under pressure, with mood and atmosphere doing most of the heavy lifting.

Watch it for

the suffocating atmosphere of a snowed-in town where nobody can leave and everybody has secrets.

Maybe skip if

you want fast pacing, since it favors slow-burn dread over frequent twists or action.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12015
7.77K108h 37m
A small town inspector's list of suspects grows as he becomes ensnared in a web of secrets and betrayals involving a mysterious death.
Season 22018
7.44K103h 27m
A sheep farmer's attack on a government minister leads Andri to Iceland's remote highlands, where a worker at a local power plant is found murdered.
Entrapped2021
7.11K8
Picking up two years after the second season, police duo Andri and Hinrika get drawn into a war in the remote highlands, where two rival groups fight over specific pieces of land, but for very different reasons.

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Andri Ólafsson, Andri Olafsson
Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir Hinrika Kristjánsdóttir
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Trausti Einarsson
Guðjón Pedersen Bárður
Ingvar Sigurdsson Ásgeir, Ásgeir Þórarinsson
Elva María Birgisdóttir Þórhildur, Þórhildur yngri
Baltasar Breki Hjörtur, Hjörtur Stefánsson
Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir Kolbrún
Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir Laufey
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson Eirikur, Eiríkur

Crew

Baltasar Kormákur

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