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SBS on Demand: The Minister, La Jauria.

An Icelandic political drama and Chilean crime drama come to SBS.

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An Icelandic political drama and Chilean crime drama premiere at SBS on Demand this week.

The Minister
Thursday, 10 December

In Icelandic with English subtitles. All eight episodes available to stream.

Politician. Poet. Prime Minister? Some have labelled Benedikt Ríkardsson (Olafur Olafsson Trapped) an unorthodox radical, but he calls himself an honest citizen of Iceland. Who better to be the voice of this great nation?

Benedikt is not interested in power he wants to listen to the people, change the country, and make it better. Radical or righteous? One thing is for sure, he will be a leader unlike any we’ve ever seen before. Benedikt Ríkardsson takes a radical approach to politics, earning him the support of the Icelandic people. This takes the nation’s political establishment by storm, and Benedikt finds himself becoming the Chair of the Independence Party and Iceland’s Prime Minister.

What the nation does not know, however, is that Benedikt is suffering from an underlying bipolar disorder. As his disorder worsens, the Prime Minister’s team and their allies are forced to endanger both the stability of the government and their private lives – some hide the illness while others abuse it.

La Jauria
Thursday, 10 December

In Spanish with English subtitles. All eight episodes available to stream.

Santa Inés School is paralysed by the accusation of abuse a student girl files against a teacher. Blanca Ibarra (Antonia Giesen), together with other mates, occupy the school to support her. In the middle of this convulsed atmosphere, Blanca goes missing. Olivia Fernández (Antonia Zegers) is a deputy superintendent in the sexual offenses area of the Civil Police and, together with agent Carla Farías (María Gracia Omegna), she investigates cases of gender violence. Very soon, they start suspecting that, behind the disappearance of young Blanca, there’s a dark serial game. In parallel, Elisa Murillo (Daniela Vega, A Fantastic Woman), homicides deputy superintendent, investigates the death of another 17-year-old girl and strongly suspects both cases are linked.

But priorities change after a video of a gang assaulting Blanca goes viral throughout the country. The record shows a group of masked men that seem to be part of a growing underground community that builds up hatred against women and promulgates the vindication of the masculine gender in the midst of the feminist revolution.

Thus, the police team discovers the different plots of ‘The Game of the Wolf’, a macabre online game that recruits young men, entraps them and turns them into executioners of female victims: the mechanism soon manages to get even into the homes of the detectives themselves, putting their lives and that of their beloved ones at risk.

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