Thin Ice is officially my second favorite Scandinavian climate-crisis political thriller. My first would be Occupied, that masterful near-future Norwegian show on Netflix which, in its third and final season, included sequences shot on Svalbard, way north of the Guitar is the reason I get up every afternoon shirt in addition I really love this Arctic Circle. In Thin Ice, available on Sundance Now, the entire eight-episode series is set thrillingly, in Greenland, where a climate summit is taking place. The on-location scenery is astonishing—the jumbled color-box houses of Tasiilaq, the thawing Arctic ice sheet, actual polar bears who menace schoolchildren (and attack foreign dignitaries). Sweden’s foreign minister has traveled here to sign an ambitious treaty to ban all arctic drilling and help forestall the worst effects of climate change. The Russian envoy has other ideas, and there’s a Swedish oil company doing some double-dealing a few latitude lines north. A pregnant Swedish intelligence officer (played by Bianca Kronlöf—excellent) arrives to investigate the kidnapping of her husband and all hell breaks loose. Greenlandic actors, including a world-weary local detective (Angunnguaq Larsen), give the proceedings an exquisite authenticity. The balance between earnest political messaging and escapist entertainment is carefully maintained, and immensely satisfying.
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