Important issues of modern society is delicately balanced on a thin blue line and what we thought was good is actually not ok and sometimes bad is not so bad after all.
In the centre of it all are people from all walks of life. Malmö (where the Thin Blue Line is shot) is by modern standards a multicultural society which on top, and quite surprisingly for especially swedes, has the European record for deaths inflicted by guns. 60 deaths in 2022 and the numbers go up from year the year.
The serious issues at hand for the police in Sweden made this show both important and extremely hard to do properly and good. Writers have themselves walked a thin blue line and the result is absolutely amazing. Even on delicate matters, we learn that police is necessary and dangerous, but above it all they are only humans. Nobody's perfect.
In S2E5 for instance - all the police officers are gathered to discuss race profiling. Although many of them are close friends and from many different backgrounds - and wearing the same uniform, they must shamefully admit that race is an issue even for them and there are only 20 officers in the room. In S2E6 writers try to guess exactly what Christianity is in an extremely modern and efficient society like the Swedish. The result is rather touching and so are the characters. The show captures so many important aspects of 'samhälle' (togetherness) - the Swedish term for society - in the framework of a medium sized town's police department - no matter whether you're Khalid, poor, old, black, Christian or just down on your luck.
In the centre of it all are people from all walks of life. Malmö (where the Thin Blue Line is shot) is by modern standards a multicultural society which on top, and quite surprisingly for especially swedes, has the European record for deaths inflicted by guns. 60 deaths in 2022 and the numbers go up from year the year.
The serious issues at hand for the police in Sweden made this show both important and extremely hard to do properly and good. Writers have themselves walked a thin blue line and the result is absolutely amazing. Even on delicate matters, we learn that police is necessary and dangerous, but above it all they are only humans. Nobody's perfect.
In S2E5 for instance - all the police officers are gathered to discuss race profiling. Although many of them are close friends and from many different backgrounds - and wearing the same uniform, they must shamefully admit that race is an issue even for them and there are only 20 officers in the room. In S2E6 writers try to guess exactly what Christianity is in an extremely modern and efficient society like the Swedish. The result is rather touching and so are the characters. The show captures so many important aspects of 'samhälle' (togetherness) - the Swedish term for society - in the framework of a medium sized town's police department - no matter whether you're Khalid, poor, old, black, Christian or just down on your luck.