The 9 Nordic Netflix releases to look out for in 2026

As the calendar flips to a new year, so too does the Netflix slate, offering a reliable distraction from January’s darkness and bite. It’s prime time to sink into the sofa and commit to something new, and the streaming giant is more than ready. With the first nine productions already announced and more releases still under wraps, we take stock of the most anticipated Netflix titles landing in 2026.

Warning: potential spoilers ahead...

Based on Emma Hamberg’s novel of the same name, Je m'appelle Agneta follows its titular heroine as she navigates life after her children have flown the nest. With her job stalled and her husband newly enlightened by ice baths and high-end cycling gear, Agneta decides to leave Sweden behind and head to France, taking a job as an au pair for a Swedish boy. On arrival, however, she finds no rosy-cheeked child waiting for her, but an eccentric elderly gentleman instead.

Fronted by Tobias Santelmann, Joel Kinnaman and Pia Tjelta, crime maestro Jo Nesbø’s next adaptation, Detective Hole, is a dark whodunnit anchored by his most infamous anti-hero, Harry Hole. The series follows two police officers and uneasy colleagues as Harry comes face to face with his long-time nemesis, the corrupt detective Tom Waaler. Brilliant, self-destructive and relentlessly driven, Harry must hunt down a serial killer while finally attempting to bring Waaler to justice.

Love Is Blind: Sweden returns for its third season, once again pairing singles with their supposed ideal match before they’ve ever laid eyes on one another. After multiple success stories, including Niklas and Karin Agild, the 10-episode series sets out to test the premise all over again: is love really blind?

Based on a novel by Norwegian writer Søren Sveistrup, this new series reunites viewers with the detectives from The Chestnut Man. This time, a 41-year-old woman is found dead after being subjected to an escalating campaign of stalking. An unknown perpetrator forces her into a brutal game of hide-and-seek, monitoring her in private moments and sending images and videos as proof.

When the murder is linked to another unsolved case, Europol liaison Mark Hess returns to Copenhagen to lead the investigation alongside his former partner, Naia Thulin. Their professional reunion, however, is complicated by a failed attempt at dating after their last case, adding tension to an already volatile pursuit.

As summer settles over Stockholm, a far darker season begins. Clean-cut, widely respected lead investigator Thomas Berg finds himself hunting a serial killer whose victims are disturbingly close to home. When the murders begin targeting his own colleagues, Berg makes a reckless but necessary choice: he turns to a once-brilliant, deeply misanthropic ex-detective for help.

The catch? The man is his estranged father, Alfred. To protect their fellow officers, the two must put decades of resentment aside and work together, whether they like it or not.

Louise Andersen is living a quiet, contented life on the Norwegian island of Hidra, running a café with her partner, Joachim. That calm is shattered when a stranger walks in and claims she is not who she thinks she is. According to him, Louise is Helene Söderberg, a woman who vanished from Denmark three years earlier, leaving behind a husband, Edmund, who has been searching for her ever since.

Determined to uncover the truth of her past, Louise leaves Joachim behind and sets out to piece together the life she may have forgotten.

Filip (Gustaf Skarsgård) marks his 45th birthday with an intimate dinner for his closest friends at the lavish farm estate he has recently acquired with his wife in northern Sweden. When a violent storm cuts off all escape, the guests are forced to remain together. Facades crack, tempers flare and carefully maintained versions of themselves begin to collapse.

As the reality of their isolation sets in, panic surfaces and the remote estate starts to feel increasingly claustrophobic, drawing out long-buried secrets and emotions none of them are prepared to face.

Based on the true story of Gösta Engzell, a largely overlooked bureaucrat at the Swedish Foreign Ministry during the Second World War, The Swedish Connection follows Engzell and his small team as they begin to grasp the scale of the atrocities being committed against Europe’s Jews. What follows is a quietly radical plan to outmanoeuvre the Nazis from within the system.

Featuring Henrik Dorsin and Sissela Benn, the series tells the story of an unlikely Swedish hero whose actions helped save thousands of lives.

In the high-pressure theatre of the emergency ward, social distinctions quickly fall away. Here, everyone is simply a patient in need of care. Against the clock and chronic understaffing, an exhausted but fiercely committed team of doctors and nurses runs on adrenaline and lukewarm coffee.

Into this chaos steps Sofia (Sara Khorami), a brilliant surgeon with a damaged reputation. Sent to the ER as a form of professional penance, she expects resistance and disorder. Instead, she discovers something she hadn’t anticipated: a sense of warmth, community and, unexpectedly, love.