Deadwind (Finnish: Karppi) is a Finnish crime drama and Nordic noir television series directed and created by Rike Jokela, starring Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Jani Volanen, and Tommi Korpela. It premiered in Finland in March 2018 on Yle TV2 and in August 2018 on Netflix. The show follows Sofia Karppi, a detective of the Finnish police who is recently widowed in her 30s with a young son and teenage stepdaughter living with her. She returns to police work in Helsinki, and her first case is the murder of Anna Bergdahl, a social affairs consultant. Season 1 received strong reviews after airing in Finland and was compared to the Danish ‘The Killing’ and to the Danish-Swedish ‘The Bridge‘. Season 2 of the show premiered on Yle TV on April 5, 2020 and was added to Netflix on July 1, 2020. Season 3 of the show premiered on Yle TV on October 29, 2021. Netflix announced October 29, 2022, as its release date for the third season. Season 1 was nominated at the 2018 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize in the Best Nordic Screenplay category. Noel Murray of The Verge described the series as “realistically grim, but also offers the simple satisfaction of watching smart professionals bring some order to a chaotic world, one case at a time.” According to Bustle magazine’s Rebecca Patton, Deadwind is “just as compelling and addictive as its predecessors. After all, no one does brooding crime shows like the Scandinavians.” The series was co-written by director Rike Jokela with Jari Olavi Rantala and Kirsi Porkka. Deadwind is produced for Yle by Dionysos Films’ Producers Riina Hyytiä and Pauliina Ståhlberg, and co-produced by the German company H&V Production.
