Canal+ is broadcasting a new Scandinavian dystopian series from this Monday, which won an award at Séries Mania in 2023. It’s the program not to be missed on television tonight.
Sensitive souls should refrain. This Monday, September 2, a new series is arriving. Coming straight from Norway, this dystopian program, a fiction that depicts an often dark and pessimistic futuristic society, is composed of only seven episodes, broadcast each week on television before being put online in streaming. After winning the prize for best screenplay in international competition at the Séries Mania festival, it is not to be missed at the beginning of this week.
This series takes viewers back to 2037. As Europe grapples with multiple crises, Norway has decided to close its borders and implement a massive, armed surveillance system. But the country’s future is jeopardized when a disease begins to ravage fish farms and a deadly virus spreads through the population, consuming the landlocked country from the inside out and challenging the country’s extremely strict immigration policies. Here’s the plot of The Fortress.
Awarded at the Séries Mania festival, The Fortressa series by John Kare Raake and Linn-Jeanethe Kyed, imagined before the Covid-19 crisis, has generally won over critics. It is an “effective thriller” for TV Mag, while Le Parisien praises “a breathtaking production with particularly endearing characters”, even if it remains “sometimes a little too academic in its execution and with some easy scenarios”. For La Croix, it is also a “dystopia with frightening realism” while Télérama describes it as an “interesting political dystopia but sometimes painful to watch”. Conversely, Télé-Loisirs criticizes it for being “too boring and predictable”.
Composed of seven episodes of approximately one hour each, The Fortress can be watched quickly once its television broadcast has finished. It is indeed offered every Monday evening on Canal+ from 9:10 p.m., until September 16, the date of broadcast of the final episode. MyCanal subscribers can then catch up on the broadcast of the episodes in streaming.