Bosse (Björn Elgerd)

grows up in Piteå in the 70s, and at the same time that gambling for money becomes legal in Sweden, he follows his father to the trot.

Bosse's dreams of a professional career in AIK are complicated when he loses his little brother in a drowning accident.

However, after the trauma, he develops a knack for predicting winners in sports and earns good dough on games like the iron tip.

Together with his friend, the Irish Norrbotten Josh (Edvin Bredefeldt), Bosse soon decides to move to Stockholm and start playing "full-time" and a third friend joins, the long-haired Lars-Erik (Ulf Stenberg).

A couple of defeats

and a deal with a shady bookmaker later and they are forced to resort to more radical methods: rigging matches in bandy, hockey and football.

The interplay between the sports cheats is amusingly reminiscent of a bachelor pad-in-the-80s version of "Oceans 11".

The wheelchair-bound Lars-Erik is responsible for at least one of the series' funniest scenes, when he persuades an overwintered hockey forward to agree to a lay-in game: "How many seasons do you think you have in you?

One two?".

There is also room for love.

Not least when Bosse returns to Piteå as the homecoming king with a self-confidence that only money in his pocket can give, and in an authentic Norrbothnian scene meets his girlfriend after getting the nob from a jockey in Stockholm.

The big wins

soon create attention.

A supervisor at Tipstjänst is becoming suspicious and a reporter at Expressen has also started digging into the matter.

The feeling of a more innocent time is enhanced when the story is told through the eyes of a group of northerners, who appear in the big city with a naive attitude that changes quickly after a couple of cold showers.

The series' sympathies are nevertheless clear with its characters, when uncomprehending Sörlanders are taught why the river is silent in "pitepalt".

Man's fascination

with games and gambling is eternal and it captures the "Gaming Scandal" with a nostalgic shimmer from the Swedish 70s, 80s and 90s.

The ensemble of actors is super talented, the script is written at a fast pace and a great compliment to the design, costume and scenography which, for example, made Solvalla 1989 appear epically glamorous.

It's pure daddy porn, quite simply.