The BEST Viaplay shows of all time
Every Viaplay show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every Viaplay show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - The Kingdom (1994)
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
View Episode Rankings#2 - The Truth Will Out
Could Sweden’s most notorious killer be innocent? Detective Peter Wendel struggles to hold together his fractured psyche – and mismatched cold case team – while uncovering the truth of a cryptic message.
View Episode Rankings#3 - Murderesses
Rising police talent Karolina delves deep to uncover her missing ex-cop father's fate, stumbling upon treacherous family shadows and a corrupt police scheme. As she battles against toxic masculinity, shocking revelations about her father emerge.
View Episode Rankings#4 - Wisting
Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is the beginning of a showdown with the deadliest killer of them all.
View Episode Rankings#5 - Love Me
Friendship, grief and romance intersect with love in the lives of three generations of people living in Stockholm.
View Episode Rankings#6 - The Machinery
Olle is just a regular family man who wakes up on the car ferry between Sandefjord and Strømstad after a binge on a work conference. He remembers nothing, but finds a bag of cash, a gun and a ski mask next to him. It is up to Olle to find out what has happened and why, before the police catches up to him.
View Episode Rankings#7 - Pros and Cons
Officially they are a regular family. Unofficially, they are Denmark's most notorious cheaters. The question is how to deal with parenting meetings, lunch boxes and payouts at the same time as their biggest coup.
View Episode Rankings#8 - Swedish Dicks
Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.
View Episode Rankings#9 - The Lawyer
The Lawyer follows the dangerous descent of Swedish defence lawyer Frank Nordling (Alexander Karim) into the Copenhagen underworld. When he discovers that the firm’s most important client is responsible for the murder of his parents when he was just a child, Nordling is drawn into a life-threatening web of violence and revenge.
View Episode Rankings#10 - Thicker Than Water
The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past...
View Episode Rankings#11 - The Architect
When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? A pitch-black, keenly observed satire about an all-too-near future.
View Episode Rankings#12 - Alex
Alex thought he had figured it all: a loving family, a successful career in the Stockholm police force… and some extra cash doing small jobs for the local mafia. But when his co-detective and partner in crime gets killed in shady circumstances, the whole edifice of Alex’s life starts to fall apart. Put under internal investigation, Alex tries to cut its ties to the mafia but things don’t go as planned. They kidnap his son to force him to do one last job: unmask a police snitch in their ranks. With everything against him, Alex must find a way to get his life back.
View Episode Rankings#13 - Box 21
Two young women seek revenge on the men who lured them from eastern Europe to Sweden with false promises of a better life. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure takes hostages in a Stockholm hospital morgue. With the lines between criminal and victim rapidly blurring, police inspector Ewert Grens struggles to untangle a complex and deadly web of secrets. Does the elusive Box 21 of the title hold the answer?
View Episode Rankings#14 - Threesome (2021)
Follows Siri and David, who are high school cops and live together in London. When a night out ends in a spontaneous night of passion with Camille, they are forced to investigate their relationship.
View Episode Rankings#15 - Face to Face (2019)
When investigator Bjørn visits a forensic officer to identify a young woman, he is horrified to find his own daughter lying on the autopsy table. The forensic officer regards it as a suicide, but Bjørn refuses to believe that his daughter has taken her own life. As the evidence begins to point towards murder, a prodigious, furious and sorrow-stricken Bjørn begins to chat the last day of his daughter’s life. This sends him on a whirlwind journey through the night, where he encounters people who each meant something crucial to his daughter, revealing a network of truths, lies and criminal acts woven into her and Bjørn’s own life. In order to understand his daughter’s death, Bjørn must confront himself – until he finally faces the unavoidable truth of why she died.
View Episode Rankings#16 - Trom
After a missing animal rights activist is found amid a local whale hunt, journalist Hannis Martinsson risks his own skin on the trail of a spectacular story, sending shock waves through the isolated island community of the Faroes.
View Episode Rankings#17 - Red Election
Follow Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy, who are pitched together in a desperate race against time. Caught in a web of lies, murder, and power struggles.
View Episode Rankings#18 - Rig 45
One crew - one killer. Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident. When starting to investigate, Andrea finds that the crew of the rig is unwilling to talk to her and she has a hard time finding out the truth. Just when the rig is hit by a hurricane and all forms of communication to the mainland is cut off, the crew realize that the accident is in fact a murder, and they now know that they are in real danger. With a murderer amongst them, questions are being asked - who is the killer?
View Episode Rankings#19 - Close To Me
Jo Harding is a woman who has a perfect life with her partner until a fall erases an entire year from her memory. As she struggles to piece events together, Jo discovers that her life was in fact far from perfect.
View Episode Rankings#20 - Professionals (2020)
After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, and his fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Graciela "Grace" Davila, turn to a hardened former counterintelligence officer.
View Episode Rankings#21 - Hassel (2017)
Detective Roland Hassel's father figure and mentor, Yngve Ruda, is brutally murdered in the middle of the street. Devastated, Hassel decides to undertake his own covert investigation to find Ruda's killer and avenge him with the support of 'Triton', a special task force consisting of Hassel's most devoted co-workers. But Hassel's obsession with the case affects his family as well. As Hassel, his girlfriend Daniela and his 14-year-old stepdaughter Vida struggle to stay together as a real family they find themselves in a downward spiral taking them further and further into an abyss. Meanwhile, the evidence on Ruda's killer leads away from the street and up the corridors of power in Stockholm and Brussels. But Hassel's battle against crime and corruption knows no boundaries and he will stop at nothing.
View Episode Rankings#22 - Partisan
Set in the idyllic surroundings of Jordnära, a gated community that runs a very successful organic farm. A man takes a job offer, soon learning about their unorthodox rules and routines.
View Episode Rankings#23 - Cryptid
As a chain of horrific and inexplicable events start to unfold in a small town on the northern hemisphere, an ensemble of high school students will be forced to face their darkest fears in order to overcome a supernatural force feeding on chaos and the misery of mankind.
View Episode Rankings#24 - Honour (2019)
Heder is the name of a law firm headed by four female partners and long-time friends, on a mission to make the world a better place for women, victims of violence. Inexplicable and scary things start to happen to the hard-working lawyers, each contacted in a different way by an unknown person. Coarse sexual images are sent, the office is vandalised and it looks like the threats come from a powerful force from the criminal underworld. Swedish thriller series Honour (Heder) is the brain child of actresses, co-creators and exec producers Sofia Helin, Alexandra Rapaport, Julia Dufvenius and Anja Lundqvist.
View Episode Rankings#25 - Home Invasion
Petty criminal Mick has to pay a debt back to some scary people, so he and his partner Tom decide to break into a house... which they discover is inhabited by aliens.
View Episode Rankings#26 - The Box (2021)
Sharon Pici is a Kansas City Police Detective. She sees herself being locked in a room from which she cannot escape. While the series begins as a character-driven thriller, it quickly evolves into a supernatural nightmare.
View Episode Rankings