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Varg Veum

TV·2007–2012·2 seasons, 12 episodes·Crime, Drama

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Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Varg Veum S01E01Bitter FlowersS01E01 · 8.0A successful female politician hires private-detective Varg Veum. She wants him to find her missing daughter without attracting attention. During his investigation Veum becomes aware of an international company and its dealings with corruption, black-business, and murder.
  2. 02Varg Veum S01E02Sleeping BeautyS01E02 · 8.0The second of the Varg Veum movies based on Gunnar Staalesen's Norwegian crime novels. The movie develops Veum's character a bit further (by exposing him to corpses, middle-class families, and gangsters), plus the girlfriend he established a bit of a relationship with at the end of the first film reappears. The relationship between Veum and a senior cop is also developed a bit further, extending their antipathy to new levels. Sleeping Beauty's plot includes murder, incest, pedophilia, drugs, runaways, child prostitution, sex among neighbors, homosexuality (considered by a teenager's father to be worse than his drug abuse), insider trading, organized crime, police stakeouts, attempted matricide, and a pair of broken marriages.
  3. 03Varg Veum S01E03Din til dødenS01E03 · 8.0Din til døden There has been no shortage of women in private investigator Varg Veum's life, but not for the long haul. When the search for her estranged husband Jonas's car brings Varg together with Wenche Andresen, he believes he may have found the one. But there's a problem; Jonas ends up dead, and Wenche is the cops' prime suspect. Varg can't believe this beautiful woman with her old fashioned ideas on love and fidelity can possibly be guilty, and he sets out to crack the

Cast

Trond Espen SeimTrond Espen SeimVarg VeumMartine JohansenMartine JohansenTorill / Eva BeateLene NystrømLene NystrømKarinNikolaj Lie KaasNikolaj Lie KaasKnivenBjørn FlobergBjørn FlobergPolizeichef HamrePetronella BarkerPetronella BarkerSidsel

Episodes by season

Season01Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2007–08Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Varg Veum S01E01Season's bestBitter FlowersSeptember 8, 2007 8.0A successful female politician hires private-detective Varg Veum. She wants him to find her missing daughter without attracting attention. D
  2. S01E02Varg Veum S01E02Sleeping BeautyJanuary 13, 2008 8.0The second of the Varg Veum movies based on Gunnar Staalesen's Norwegian crime novels. The movie develops Veum's character a bit further (by
  3. S01E03Varg Veum S01E03Din til dødenMarch 12, 2008 8.0Din til døden There has been no shortage of women in private investigator Varg Veum's life, but not for the long haul. When the search for
  4. S01E04Varg Veum S01E04Fallen AngelsApril 4, 2008 8.0A serial killer is targeting the members of a band called The Guardian Angels. The second of his victims is Rebecca, wife of the band's lead
  5. S01E05Varg Veum S01E05Woman in the FridgeSeptember 17, 2008 8.0Veum is on a case of a missing employee (Arne) for an international oil drilling company. When he checks Arne's flat he discovers a woman's
  6. S01E06Varg Veum S01E06Buried DogsOctober 15, 2008 8.0Buried Dogs (Begravde Hunder) is the sixth film in the Varg Veum series. Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2010–12Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S02E01Varg Veum S02E01Season's bestWriting on the WallAugust 27, 2010 8.0Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher and has settled down to enjoy domestic bliss with
  2. S02E02Varg Veum S02E02Black SheepJanuary 21, 2011 8.0This is number 8 in the series of Varg Veum, written by Gunnar Staalesen. The plot spins around Veum's girlfriend's sister: she is a prostit
  3. S02E03Varg Veum S02E03Consorts of DeathApril 8, 2011 8.0Varg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and
  4. S02E04Varg Veum S02E04At Night All Wolves Are GreyNovember 4, 2011 8.0Private detective Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Evans, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombi
  5. S02E05Varg Veum S02E05The Dead Have it EasyJanuary 20, 2012 8.0Varg tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to prevent her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing fr
  6. S02E06Varg Veum S02E06Cold HeartsMarch 30, 2012 8.0While investigating a case of sisters who have vanished, Varg Veum is about to become a father. He realizes that the case has connections to

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