Netflix announced today the premiere date for The New Force, the global streamer’s first period drama from Sweden.
Thematically similar to the Mexican crime drama series Women in Blue, The New Force (aka Skiftet) is about Sweden’s first female cops.
It opens in 1958, when the class of Sweden’s first female police officers graduates. They may be few in number, but these pioneers take a big step for gender equality. However, they struggle to take even the smallest step themselves, literally, as the skirts they’re forced to wear chafe like sandpaper against their thighs. What’s more, they are ridiculed by the public, belittled by the media, and scorned by their colleagues.
Assigned to the Klara police district in Stockholm, the country’s most crime-ridden district, these women start their new crime-fighting job by patrolling the city’s streets. It doesn’t take long for them to realize that their biggest problem isn’t the criminals; rather, it’s the resistance that comes from colleagues and Swedish society as a whole.
The New Force, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Friday, October 3, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The cast includes Josefin Asplund (Top Dog, Snow Angels), Agnes Rase (Rebecka Martinsson, Midsommar), Malin Persson (Thunder in My Heart, The Restaurant), Christopher Wagelin (The Truth Will Out, Blue Eyes), Hannes Fohlin (Thin Blue Line, The Restaurant), Rasmus Luthander (The Unlikely Murderer, Let the Right One In), Jimmy Lindström (Agatha Christie’s Hjerson, The Simple Heist), Cilla Thorell (Gåsmamman, The Sandhamn Murders), Pablo Leiva Wenger (The Helicopter Heist, A Nearly Normal Family), Peter Eriksson (The Unlikely Murderer, Beck), Dominik Henzel (Murder in Sweden, Spring Tide), Leonard Terfelt (Young Royals, The Bridge), Adam Schmidt, Matilda Esselius (Faithless, The Congregation), Camila Bejarano Wahlgren (The Sandhamn Murders, Ronja the Robber’s Daughter), and Linus Eklund.
A production of Art & Bob, the series is created by Patrik Ehrnst and Rojda Sekersöz, written by Patrik Ehrnst (head writer), Elin Randin, and Antonia Pyk, and directed by Rojda Sekersöz (conceptual director) and Julia Lindström. Cecilia Forsberg Becker is the producer and Annika Rogell and Jan Blomgren the executive producers.
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