There are already good reviews here describing what and how this series is great. I just want to add a few bits.~ Global warming is upon us, human greed and bad attitudes present, and a spin on killer zombies that totally works!~ There are 8 women characters in . Like the series, each is beautifully multi-layered and the characters develop slowly. It's rare to have so many interesting women characters in one place. Great writing! ~ There are several moving and surprising love stories, also beautifully developed.I stopped watching Fortitude because I couldn't keep up with the heavy English, Norwegian, and Swedish accents. However, using subtitles filled in just enough and I'm so pleased to have met this Nordic Noir.

Please tell me this was not a 'film students keys' to their first car ! I want to know... since I know what it's like to have 'reasonable' and 'intelligent' projects turned away ...... if this is the future of 'developments' ... I'm off to be a bartender ! An embarrassment for Mr. Tucci, who must have flown home, completing the final shoot and had never seen the end product... he's an 'Schindlers List' alumni for God's sake !

I had big expectations with such good actors. Real actors from European theatre, TV and films. Sir Michael John Gambon, Christopher Eccleston from Dr Who. Sofie Gråbøl was very good as the governor. Richard Dormer from Game of Thromes played the main police officer well, with Stanley Tucci as the newcomer officer from London. I wasn't disappointed. Reason I watched was because I was getting into watching Icelandic cinema online, and then this came up because it was filmed in Iceland, even though it was British made. The community seemed to be based on Svalbard, island off Norway, and I've always been fascinated what it must be like to live in such a remote location. I thought it was quite an original intriguing story line and cared about the characters. I had to watch whole series in one night, as needed to know what would happen next. Then in-between all the murder and mystery, there was the amusing couple of the uptight Scandinavian teacher, with his fat homely British girlfriend who he enjoyed feeding

I watched both the seasons yesterday. Although I felt Season 1 to be okay because of the story , still a lot of questions are left unanswered whereas Season 2 is the worst I have seen so far because there were too many irrelevant and disturbing scenes which was not required at all. Overall this TV series didn't live up to my expectations and I gave 3/10 only because of Season 1.