Reviews

• “Jag for ner till bror is a gripping drama that stays with you.”

• “The TV version of Jag for ner till bror: Deeply moving.”

• “Jag for ner till bror is the best Swedish TV series of the year. /…/ It should be impossible. How do you do justice to Karin Smirnoff’s acclaimed, almost mythically stark torrent of words on the often disenchanted TV screen? The answer comes in four hard-hitting episodes that pulverize any conceivable skepticism. /…/ It is once again time to celebrate screenwriter Karin Arrhenius. /…/ Here, she does full justice to the source material’s stark, hard-boiled language.”

• “What resonates most strongly with me is how well this adaptation captures the relationship between the siblings. It also serves as a timely reminder, as the holiday season’s demand for total happiness by Boxing Day more often than not tends to drive one mad with one’s family of origin.”

• “Karin Smirnoff’s Jag for ner till bror has become an excellent miniseries. /…/ Despite a shimmering hint of fairy tale, Jag for ner till bror is above all emotionally true, coherent, and believable.”

• “By far the best Swedish TV series of the year. /…/ Hats off. Screenwriter Karin Arrhenius and director Sanna Lenken have turned Karin Smirnoff’s acclaimed 2018 debut novel Jag for ner till bror into a four-part miniseries — and it is something truly special, with extraordinary intensity in every single scene. /…/ Lenken’s direction has an unfailing feel for both the place and the people; Arrhenius’s script gives us exactly what we need to know precisely when we need to know it, and the concise yet hard-hitting dialogue says a great deal with very few words. /…/ Everything comes together in this distinctive, richly textured and intense world, existing somewhere between social realism and tall tale. And it is both moving and impressively unsentimental at the same time. ”