In a month, it will be the premiere of the third season of the series Our time is now, where we get to see the characters of restaurant Djurgårdskällaren build on the Swedish people's home, this time in the late 60's.

- It has been very fascinating to be able to delve into our shared history. For Nina, it is very much a women's story. First she is a very unhappy housewife and then she is a very unhappy mother, says Hedda Stiernstedt, who plays Nina Löwander in the series.

Popular grip

The second season of Our Time is now had over two million viewers per episode and recently amazed American movie critics that the feature film version of the British epic drama series Downton Abbey ended up at the top of the movie list, over the space movie Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt.

Another example is the series Lyckolandet, which shows how Norway changed when the oil industry was established in the country and is the most expensive Norwegian series ever.

- You always say that when the outside world feels intimidating and complex, we turn to the past and the nostalgic. I think that is also true here because many of us perceive the contemporary as quite dark and polarized, says Culture News film critic Fredrik Sahlin.

Modern worries

But the series does not give a pure representation of the time, and nostalgia is not the only reason for the epoch drama's popularity, says Fredrik Sahlin.

- The fiction makers sneak in the values ​​of our time in the series. After all, the characters are forced into conflicts that breathe much more presently than then. In this way you can say that these stories actually bring up the past and make it a little more compatible with the present, a little more enlightened than it really was.

Hedda Stiernstedt plays Nina Löwander, the youngest daughter in the family who owns the Djurgård basement. In her role, she struggles with several problems that women encounter even in today's society, such as living up to expectations when it comes to how to be a mother and wife.

- It is so fascinating to know where we come from. And although we have to some extent moved forward, it is the same battles that we are fighting. There is so little that has changed, there are still questions about immigration, feminism. We never learn.