Based on the 2021 novel of the same name, the Netflix series recounts the chilling story of a long-unsolved case involving the fatal stabbings of a young boy and a middle-aged woman. Sixteen years ...

Opening Shot: A dad explains to his son how the hands of a watch move. The Gist: In October 2004, a double murder took place in the town of Linköping, Sweden, which took 16 years to solve, thanks to ...

Netflix’s The Breakthrough is a gripping Swedish miniseries that brings to life one of Europe’s most perplexing and haunting criminal cases of this century: a 2004 double murder in the country’s ...

One of Netflix’s more interesting recent original series, The Breakthrough, is a four-part miniseries based on journalist Anna Boden and genealogist Peter Sjölund’s book examining the second-largest ...

For scripted series based on true crime stories, it’s really tough to tell the story of the investigation of that crime if that investigation took years or even decades. There is just no way to show ...

Peter Eggers as John and Mattias Nordkvist as Per in Netflix's series 'Breakthrough' (2025). The Breakthrough follows a double murder that took 16 years to solve — much like a real-life incident that ...

Mattias Nordkvist as Per and Peter Eggers as John in The Breakthrough Netflix’s The Breakthrough is a gripping Swedish miniseries that brings to life one of Europe’s most perplexing and haunting ...