Deliver Me
A tragic novel contemplating teen delinquency is disappointingly adapted with the same Netflix approach
6.0
TV Show
Sweden
Swedish
Drama, Mystery
2024
Ane Dahl Torp, Ardalan Esmaili, Henrik Norlen
6.0
The Staff
TLDR
We’re not expecting child murder to be fun to watch, but the show’s done no favor to its excellent cast since it’s made with the same Netflix true crime flair.
What it's about
The attempted murder of a Swedish teenager living in the fringe follows a chain of events that starts when he and his best friend are recruited by a local gang.
The take
We don’t like to think about it, but there are children around the world recruited into organized crime, and sometimes, it leads to violent tragedies, the very kind we want to protect our children from. Deliver Me is a Swedish miniseries based on the best-selling novel of the same name that explores how a teen delinquent enters this vicious world. The series starts with the aftermath of an attempted murder– with Dogge holding a gun in his hands and his best friend Billy bleeding out in front of him. The cops in charge, led by Farid, hope to help him, by gaining more information about the gang they were recruited into, but it’s not an easy investigation. It’s depressing, especially when Dogge is so convinced he’d get off scot-free, and the issue is clearly important. But it also doesn’t stand out, as the series pulls off the same Netflix flair we’re already used to.
What stands out
The series alternates between the investigation and what happened before the murder. It’s not a terrible idea, but the way it’s executed feels disjointed, as the sequence shifts from past to present a bit too rapidly for viewers to take in each moment.
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