Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.
The Twisted: The Valhalla Murders
For anyone who enjoys a police procedural, a great mystery or a dark and brooding thriller, look no further than The Valhalla Murders. The Iceland-set series plays like an episode of Law & Order: SVU set in Hell. A pair of detectives, Kata and Arnar, investigate a series of bizarre murders set around the island nation. Though the killings seem unrelated at first, further investigation reveals some strange connections to a home for troubled boys.
More than that we’ll not reveal here, as the eight-episode series is best left to unfold in all its frigid northern European gloom. Watching it, we couldn’t help but think of the dark tones and vistas of another classic Scandinavian mystery, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. The Valhalla Murders also features more than a few queer twists and turns. Inspired by a true story, the show channels Mindhunter with its cerebral and unrelenting gaze into the darkness of the human mind.
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Dick Gozinia
If you have Prime they are currently showing (for free) an Israeli film called ‘Snails in the Rain’ which is hot, hot, hot. It’s about a college student who receives daily ‘secret admirer’ letters. He lives with a woman and is apparently heterosexual, but he suspects that his admirer is a male and he is ‘torn’ about what he should do.
colaboy29
Interesting. The trailer is in English but I just pulled it up on Netflix and it is subtitled. I did add it to my watch list.
Critter73
Just finished it really liked it and I agree it had The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vibe. If you go to the info page and scroll down to Audio you can watch it dubbed in English so you need not do subtitles my husband will not watch anything with subtitles unfortunately.