The Thaw (HBO Max) Photo: Krzysztof Wiktor

The Thaw (HBO Max) 

Polish The Thaw (original title Odwilz) is a series for you who want your crime series hard-boiled: there are no smiles or humor here.

We are talking straight lines, rusty industrial machines against the night sky, rain-wet asphalt.

The series begins genre-faithful with a dead woman in a stream.

Detective Inspector Zawieja (Katarzyna Wajda) takes on the case, which quickly turns out to be a battle against the clock to find the dead woman's newborn child missing.

The story is slow, painful, and raw.

Annika - murder at sea Photo: UKTV Media

Annika - murder at sea (SVT) 

You who like a little more loose-cooked crime may prefer British Annika, which can be seen on SVT Play.

Annika Strandhed is a commissar (with a Norwegian background) at the marine killer whale in Glasgow.

Annika is played by Nicola Walker, who we recognize from the series Missing, never forgotten.

Here she is a little more festive and often turns to the camera and jokes with the audience.

The series is structured according to the model "adventure of the week", so Annika solves a murder in each episode.

The first includes an unfortunate boat trip and a harpoon.

Sisterhood (Viaplay) Photo: Viaplay

Sisterhood (Viaplay) 

Icelandic Sisters (Systrabönd) is the series for those who prefer drama to police investigations.

The priest Elísabet (Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir), the chef Anna Sigga (Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir) and the nurse Karlotta (Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir) have a secret that they have promised to never tell.

When skeletal parts from a young girl who disappeared 25 years earlier appear in the lava masses at the foot of a volcano, a police investigation begins and the friends are forced to draw on the past they hoped would never have to visit again.

Sisterhood is a melancholy and scenic series with the emphasis on relationships rather than excitement.