Swedish series on Netflix: Quicksand

The six-part Swedish series on Netflix "Quicksand" (not sure what the Swedish title is or means) held our interest throughout, a well-written and we'll-acted drama about a teenage girl in a posh public hs outside of Stockholm who is charged w murder and conspiracy in the wake of a school shooting that involved a # of her classmates. The story unfolds in layers, and only well into the series so we learn the particulars of the shooting, w some key elements not revealed till the final episode when she, Maja, is on trial. It must be said that most of the characters including Maja are far from sympathetic, but on the other hand they are highly credible and typical of their class and social setting. The ending, which I will not reveal, was a bit of a let-down; I was anticipating a huge dramatic twist that was not to be. I was pretty frustrated by the seeming incompetence of her attorney, but evidently he was working under strictures unknown in the us justice system (eg the accused is kept in isolation even from family until the resolution of the case!). The door is - slightly - open for a second season. Meanwhile this is one of the better term hs dramas and what seems a realistic look into a system of justice quite different from ours in the us. (Recent Italian series about scholarship kids from a tough neighborhood in Rome is another in this vein worth watch - will paste in title later [note: The series is called Elite, and it's set in Spain, sorry])

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