Thicker Than Water (2014 TV series)

Swedish drama television series

Thicker Than Water

Swedish	Tjockare än vatten

Genre	Drama
Created by	Henrik Jansson-Schweizer
Written by	Niklas Rockström Morgan Jensen
Directed by	Erik Leijonborg Anders Engström Erik Eger Lisa Eriksdotter Anette Winblad Molly Hartleb Johan Brisinger
Composers	Fleshquartet Joacim Starander
Country of origin	Sweden Finland
Original language	Swedish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	27
Production
Producer	Malte Forssell
Running time	44–58 minutes
Original release
Release	27 January 2014 (2014-01-27)

Thicker Than Water (Tjockare än vatten) is a television drama produced by Sweden's SVT in cooperation with Finland's Svenska Yle. Most of the action is set in Åland.^[1]^[2] The show's first season, consisting of ten episodes, was shown in Sweden in 2014, the second in 2016.

Plot

Three siblings are reunited at their mother's guesthouse in Åland at the start of the summer. When Anna-Lisa Waldemar takes her own life, the siblings—eldest brother Lasse, a struggling Stockholm restaurateur, younger sister Jonna, an actor, and middle child Oskar, who manages the guesthouse alongside his wife Liv—discover that her will requires them to spend the season running the business before they can inherit it from her. Secrets from twenty years earlier and from more recent times are uncovered, as well as more than one body, as the siblings attempt to overcome their differences for the sake of their mother—and the money.

Cast and characters

Björn Bengtsson as Lasse Waldemar
Joel Spira as Oskar Waldemar
Aliette Opheim as Jonna Waldemar
Stina Ekblad as Anna-Lisa Waldemar
Fredrik Hammar as Mauritz Waldemar
Jessica Grabowsky as Liv Waldemar
Saga Sarkola as Cecilia Waldemar
Molly Nutley as Kim Waldemar
Donald Högberg as Konrad Waldemar
Torkel Petersson as Manne Wahlstrom
Johanna Ringbom as Mildred Pahkinen
Tobias Zilliacus as Mikael Rosén
Charlie Petersson as Vincent Högberg
Tanja Lorentzon as Priest Petra
Henrik Norlén as Bjarne
Thomas Hedengran as Tommy Fasth
Göran Forsmark as the director
Tova Magnusson as Rachel Ohlson
Stefan Sauk as Bear Lehman
Alfons Röblom as Henrik Ölmqvist
Samuli Vauramo as Wille Ek

References

^ ZDF Enterprises GmbH. "Thicker Than Water". thickerthanwater.zdfe-b2b.de. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
^ "Angst, thrills, intrigue: why Euro drama is taking over our screens | Television & radio | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 9 September 2016.