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Carmen Curlers

TV·2022–present·3 seasons, 24 episodes·DR1·Drama·Created by Mette Heeno

Streaming on (US) PBS Masterpiece Amazon ChannelSee all

In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Carmen Curlers S02E07Episode 7S02E07 · 7.5
  2. 02Carmen Curlers S01E01Summer (August 1963)S01E01 · 7.0Axel Byvang has an idea to work his way up from poor conditions: a device that can give modern women a smart hairstyle in 10 minutes. But the first experiments in a humble basement room go horribly wrong.
  3. 03Carmen Curlers S01E03Summer/Fall (September 1963)S01E03 · 7.0The curler scandal at the beauty fair has gone around Denmark. Axel is out of business and now has 1000 defective curler sets that no one wants to buy. Birthe tries to raise money for Jørgen's chemotherapy.

Cast

Morten Hee AndersenMorten Hee AndersenAxelMaria RossingMaria RossingBirtheRosalinde MynsterRosalinde MynsterToveNicolai JørgensenNicolai JørgensenFransFanny Leander BornedalFanny Leander BornedalKathrineChristian TafdrupChristian TafdrupPoulLars RantheLars RantheJørgenMille LehfeldtMille LehfeldtVita

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode8Episodes2022Aired 6.4Season avg
  1. S01E01Carmen Curlers S01E01Season's bestSummer (August 1963)September 30, 2022 7.0Axel Byvang has an idea to work his way up from poor conditions: a device that can give modern women a smart hairstyle in 10 minutes. But th
  2. S01E02Carmen Curlers S01E02Summer (August/September 1963)October 7, 2022 6.3With the country's biggest beauty fair just around the corner, Axel enlists the help of Tove and Frans. Birthe's husband Jørgen is diagnosed
  3. S01E03Carmen Curlers S01E03Summer/Fall (September 1963)October 14, 2022 7.0The curler scandal at the beauty fair has gone around Denmark. Axel is out of business and now has 1000 defective curler sets that no one wa
  4. S01E04Carmen Curlers S01E04Fall (October 1963)October 21, 2022 6.3Axel borrows a million kroner from the bank to build a factory that will produce Carmen Curlers for the whole world. Now he just needs the c
  5. S01E05Carmen Curlers S01E05Fall (November 1963)October 28, 2022 6.7The Carmen Curlers factory opens, and Birthe has become HR manager. Axel looks forward to the Christmas sale cementing Carmen Curlers as an
  6. S01E06Carmen Curlers S01E06Fall (Two Days at the End of November 1963)November 4, 2022 4.4Curlers are being spat out at the busy Carmen factory, but for Frans there is not much to do. That's why he takes a job from the fashion pho
  7. S01E07Carmen Curlers S01E07Winter/Spring (1963/1964)November 11, 2022 6.8With the expectation of a spectacular Christmas sale, Axel decides to win Tove back. It will not be an easy task, however, because Tove goes
  8. S01E08Carmen Curlers S01E08Spring (1964)November 18, 2022 6.7Axel and Frans are hugely successful in Paris and return home with an order for 10,000 curler sets. The order must be delivered within 14 da

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2023Aired 6.6Season avg
  1. S02E01Carmen Curlers S02E01Welcome to CarmenOctober 15, 2023 6.5Axel's dream of exporting Carmen Curlers faces competition from Clarice Cosmetics. Birthe rallies factory workers, but a disgruntled group t
  2. S02E02Carmen Curlers S02E02Where the trade is carried out...October 22, 2023 7.0During an American visit, factory worker Else suffers an accident. Birthe and Axel scramble to hide safety lapses before contract signing. T
  3. S02E03Carmen Curlers S02E03The world's best place to workOctober 29, 2023 6.550,000 sets of Carmen Curlers are on their way to the US, but now Europe also needs their supplies, so Axel expands and hires people for nig
  4. S02E04Carmen Curlers S02E04Episode 4November 5, 2023 6.5
  5. S02E05Carmen Curlers S02E05Episode 5November 12, 2023 6.0
  6. S02E06Carmen Curlers S02E06Episode 6November 19, 2023 6.5
  7. S02E07Carmen Curlers S02E07Season's bestEpisode 7November 26, 2023 7.5

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode9Episodes2025Aired 6.4Season avg
  1. S03E01Carmen Curlers S03E01Episode 1September 26, 2025—
  2. S03E02Carmen Curlers S03E02Episode 2October 3, 2025—
  3. S03E03Carmen Curlers S03E03Episode 3October 10, 2025—
  4. S03E04Carmen Curlers S03E04Episode 4October 17, 2025—
  5. S03E05Carmen Curlers S03E05Episode 5October 24, 2025 6.0
  6. S03E06Carmen Curlers S03E06Season's bestEpisode 6October 31, 2025 7.0
  7. S03E07Carmen Curlers S03E07Episode 7November 7, 2025 7.0
  8. S03E08Carmen Curlers S03E08Episode 8November 14, 2025 6.0
  9. S03E09Carmen Curlers S03E09Episode 9November 21, 2025 6.0

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