Jordskott
Jordskott (, "soil shoot") is a Swedish TV thriller, crime drama series. Police detective Eva Thörnblad (Moa Gammel) investigates the disappearance of her daughter and other mysteries in her hometown of Silverhöjd. The title refers to "jordskott", a fictional plant parasite, which enhances one's perceptions but feeds off the host's blood. The series was first broadcast by SVT in 2015. Filming took place in Sala and Ragunda in mid-2014. The series then began broadcasting on ITV Encore in the UK on June 10, 2015, and on Canal+ Seriale in Poland on October 10, 2016. Following positive reception and  strong international sales for the first series, a second series, "Jordskott II", followed. It aired from 15 October 2017 in Sweden. It was then screened on ITV Encore in the UK from 19 October onwards and on Shudder in the US from 18 January 2019 onwards. Plot. The first season of "Jordskott" is set in mid-2014. Police detective Eva Thörnblad (Moa Gammel), returns to her hometown of Silverhöjd, seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared beside a forest lake. Josefine's body was never found and local police determined that she had drowned. Upon Eva's return, a local boy  has been missing for a week and she looks for similarities between the two disappearances. At the same time, she deals with the death and probate of her late father and his large timber felling, silver mining and processing business, Thörnblad Mineral & Cellulosa. Eva teams up with Göran Wass (Göran Ragnerstam), a Rikskriminalen detective (and a member of a secret society), and Tom Aronsson (Richard Forsgren), a local detective. They discover that the children's disappearances are inextricably tangled with the conflict between locals, who depend on Thörnblad Mineral & Cellulosa, and mystical beings protecting the forest and surroundings. In season  two, set in early 2017, Eva is back in Stockholm, trying to find missing teenagers and to solve the mystery of a man who dies as he turns to stone. Eva mostly works with Göran and then Tom. The investigations lead into her mother's past as an investigative journalist. The case has connections to Göran's organisation, "Envoyés de la Nature" (EN) or Nature's Messengers. Eva and Göran find links to changelings at a hospital. Eva also deals with Josefine's absence. Reception. International reviews were positive and praised the way in which the story was told over  the course of the series. The New York Times called Jordskott "a police procedural with elements of contagion thriller and vampire tale," which is arranged "so adroitly that it requires surprisingly little suspension of disbelief." The Irish Examiner enjoyed how the show "slowly starts to weave subtle elements of Norse mythology into the story." The Guardian agreed, writing that the focus on mythology set Jordskott apart from other shows.