A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small man made of chestnuts.
Stars: Esben Dalgaard Andersen, Danica Curcic and David Dencik
Full Cast: Iben Dorner, Liva Forsberg, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Ali Kazim, Louis NæssSchmidt, Lars Ranthe, Morten Brovn, Anders Hove, Kristian Høgh Jeppesen, MarieLydie Melono Nokouda, Anders Nyborg, Olaf Højgaard
Episode Guide
Best The Chestnut Man Episodes
8.1 The Chestnut Man Trailer
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User Reviews
Watchseries; I liked this series.
It's how good thrillers are made.
I wonder if there will be seasom 2?
I liked this series.
It's how good thrillers are made.
I wonder if there will be seasom 2?
The Chestnut Man watchseries. While the pacing is a bit long it is better than most of the genre available on Netflix, which is nice. It looks fantastic with HDR and 4K. The script is not bad, but the book it's based on is pretty tropey and derivative in the literary genre scene, so while fun and certainly evokes the tropes people expect from it, I'd say it's also not stand out, either.
Where lots of others have a B plot that doesn't tie in well, this doesn't have that "trap"; another plus. But it also feels like only one of the partners is fleshed out as a character and the killer was more contrived than usual. So it's a mixed bag overall.
I hope this does well enough that they adapt much better source material. Still had a great time with this and would recommend it though. Especially since it's easy to stream, which the best entries of the genre are not. If your Netflix has Trapped, I would recommend that over this. That was really stellar.
Got really hooked from the very first minute, loved how the suspense kept building up and who the killer would be. Finding the killer in the last episode completely took me off guard. To better enjoy this show keep the original language as the English dubbing is not well done and rather annoying, also the performance wasn't that fantastic. Overall, I enjoyed this one.
Very good series, as often is if it comes from Denmark. Fantastic acting from all participants and the plot is good. Quite gruesome as well, which is as it should be.
Dark atmosphere and strong images. The typical elements of the Northern European crime thriller from Scandinavia are included: cruel case, opposing investigative duo, social criticism and, above all, gloomy (autumnal) mood. The series doesn't create high tension, but so much tension that one would like to know how it all ends. Well worth seeing and one of the better crime novels. Dark crime thriller from northern Europe.
Excellent series with great plot and cast. As good as The Bridge and The Killing imo.
That says it all.