Anxious People

  • 15 Jan - 21 Jan, 2022
  • Mag The Weekly
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Comedies that revolve around crimes are rare, but the ones that work balance funny elements as well as poignant and dramatic ones. A new Netflix series from Sweden manages to achieve that balance. About ten years before, when he was a kid, Jack Johansson (Alfred Svensson) saw a man in a suit take a swan dive off that same bridge, his backpack loaded with rocks. It’s obvious that the man wanted to off himself, and he handed Jack a note to give to his loved ones. Back to the present, he goes back home where he lives with his father Jim (Dan Ekborg). They’re both cops in the Swedish town where they live, and they commute into work together. But first, Jim is hopeful that Jack’s sister Jill will join them for the New Year; Jim even wired her some money for a train ticket. Jack is dismayed that his dad fell for Jill’s gambit for more drug money for the umpteenth time. Meanwhile, a group of people tour an apartment for an open house. Then we see a masked robber bust into a bank and hold a teller at gunpoint – until the teller holds a sign saying that the robber is in a cashless bank. Jack is in the middle of a haircut across from the station, and he leaves to argue with his dad about Jill the stylist, Milou (Shima Niavarani), tells him she knows about Jill’s visit.

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