SBS on Demand: Helsinki Crimes, Alone Denmark, Norwegian-ish, Nasdrovia, The Six.

A number of new and returning titles drop this week at SBS on Demand.

They include Finnish crime drama Helsinki Crimes, survival series Alone Denmark, Norwegian comedy drama Norwegian-ish, Spanish black comedy Nasdrovia, and Polish contemporary drama The Six.

All on Thursday,28 July:

Helsinki Crimes
All eight episodes available to stream. In Finnish with English subtitles.
Timo Harjunpää (Olli Rahkonen) lives in a small, peaceful town of Kirkkonummi with his wife Elisa and two young daughters. Harjunpää’s summer should be peaceful too but is anything but. Police Sergeant Harjunpää works with the Helsinki Murder Squad, and with his newly assigned partner, Onerva Nykänen (Olga Temonen), gets to deal with cases where every behaviour humanly possible, becomes familiar to them. A sexual predator killing women introduces Harjunpää and Nykänen to the chilling incelideology, while an identity theft leads them into the world of criminal hackers. During the long summer, the pair are trying to figure out what makes under-age kids do terrible, violent crimes, and how heavily traumas and difficult home life experienced in childhood impact people all their lives, making them vulnerable to the life of crime even in adulthood. The beautiful summery Helsinki looks very different to the eyes of Harjunpää and Nykänen – to them, people are not safe at home, nor on the streets. Their cases don’t leave them alone even on their days off, and they both need to think of the impact their choice of profession has on their families, where, after a difficult day’s work, they both face their own challenges and problems. Being in the Murder Squad makes you fear for your own family, fear that you’ll lose control of the life of your own children.

Alone Denmark (Season Three)
All eight episodes available to stream. In Danish with English subtitles.
In this extreme survival experiment, 10 Danes are dropped off in the Norwegian wilderness to test how long people can survive on their own. In total isolation and with a minimum of aids, they must film their own fight against hunger, the cold, the rugged nature, and not the least themselves! The goal is to survive for as long as possible. The last person standing wins. Alone Denmark S3 is filmed further south in Norway, with more opportunities for the participants to survive. They only have the option to fish and forage – no hunting allowed.

Norwegian-ish
All eight episodes available to stream. In Norwegian, Persian, Punjabi, and Turkish with English subtitles.
Modern, well-integrated, young adults with immigrant backgrounds are often portrayed as the shining image of what multicultural Norway should be – strong, confident people who balance their two cultures perfectly. In other words – the opposite of Helin (Selda Ekiz), Amrit and Fariba. Fortunately, they have each other. With roots in four cultures, the friends try their best to navigate through adulthood with all the awkward situations, insecurities, uncomfortable everyday experiences, and victories it entails. Helin is the dutiful Turkish daughter and doctor who realises her parents have become far more liberal than herself. Iranian Fariba (Nasrin Khusrawi) decides to play her minority card to get ahead in her professional life. Amrit (Ravdeep Singh Bajwa), an untraditional Indian bar owner, discovers more pros than cons with sticking to his own kind. Simultaneously their parents struggle with not interfering while their thirty-something children go through the growing pains of life. When Helin’s little sister gets pregnant outside of marriage and her parents don’t seem to care, Helin’s world is turned upside down. Has her family become too Norwegian? Single mother Fariba’s social media activity draws her into a media circus, and her need for exposure creates a gap between her and her father. Amrit notices that he and his secret Norwegian girlfriend are drifting apart, so he starts to wonder if it is true – like his mother says – that birds of a feather flock together.

Nasdrovia (Season Two)
All six episodes available to stream. In Spanish and Russian with English subtitles.
Edurne (Leonor Watling) and Julián (Hugo Silva) are two successful lawyers. They decided to quit their careers and open a Russian restaurant – the Nasdrovia. Unfortunately, it’s so great that it becomes a favourite of the Russian Mafia. The second season of the comedy-drama, written by the show’s creators Sergio Sarra, Miguel Esteban and Luismi Perez, and its showrunner Marc Vigil, tracks the excouple’s excruciating decent into hell, as they fall into the maws of the Russian mob. Nasdrovia also stars Luis Bermejo.

The Six
All six episodes available to stream. In Polish with English subtitles.
A daughter wants to save her father; a husband, his wife; a former lover, his childhood love. They are about to participate in a revolutionary kidney transplant program. They are not compatible with their direct relatives but are compatible with each other’s. Between them, they form a chain. But with the operation imminent, complicated family relationships, past conflicts and hidden resentments resurface. Will they have the strength and courage to risk their lives to save strangers?