Another fine far-north miniseries about crime in a remote, hostile environment: Fortitude

It takes a while to start making sense of the British-shot-in-Iceland-set-in-Norway miniseries Fortitude, but a few episodes into season one is starts to come together as a really good crime series. It's set in the farthest remote north of Norway (all the dialog is in English), and we focus on conflicts between the local police chief, the Governor of the region who is set on building an "ice hotel" in one of the glaciers to boost tourism, a couple of miners who discover a preserved woolly mammoth emerging from the melting permafrost and hope to sell the specimen, a police deputy unfaithful to his wife and troubled by trauma from service in Afghanistan, a group of scientists who opposed commercialization of the glacier (and who object to profiteering and poaching), a murder of the lead scientist, and the stranger (Stanley Tucci) who arrives from Britain to help with the murder investigation and who of course faces antagonism from the local police. You can see there's a lot going on here, including several other strands I haven't mentioned, including the hint that the "preserved" species may still harbor various prehistoric germs or bacteria that could infect the local population with diseases for which there's no known treatment. So it's a very rich story, told with good pacing, with credible characters, and in a really beautiful, remote, at times spooky Icelandic setting that captures well the challenges of living as a community in a remote, isolated, and threatening (the first scene of the series is a man under attack from a polar bear), even hostile, environment.