[Big Spoilers ahead ... ]
I've heard -- in television shows and movies about serial killers, I've never done any research into them myself -- that female serial killers are very rare. Fatal Crossing, the latest Nordic Noir TV series from Kristine Berg and Arne Berggren, does a masterful job of portraying one, and how she came to be.
The villain, Lisbeth/Jyte, tells her interrogator, the journalist Nora Sand, that she's not afraid of being abandoned, she's afraid of being forgotten. That's as an astute a statement of the obsession with fame that I've come across. As part of Lisbeth's quest for fame, she likes to be quoted. I hope this fictional character appreciates that I've at least paraphrased her.
Fortunately, most people who value fame and enjoy a bit of it, including me, don't achieve it and seek to maintain it by killing people. Lisbeth discovers how much killing attractive young women really appeals to her when she and her best friend Lulu are kidnapped by a man with a taste for harming young women himself, and Lisbeth turns the tables on him, not killing him, but running him and Lulu in support of satisfying her own deadly needs.
We follow the path to discovering this depraved menage a trois via the central character, Nora Sand, an intrepid journalist with her own backpack of emotional baggage. She's played in compelling detail by Marie Sandø Jondal, whom I've never seen before on the screen. Indeed, I've never seen a searcher for serial killers portrayed with quite the range of emotional valence Sand brings to the part.
Berg and Bergson deserve a lot of credit for this, as does Lone Theils, herself a Danish journalist and author of the novel of the same name from which this TV series was adapted. Fatal Crossing is itself the first in a series of novels, and I very much look forward to seeing more of this Nordic Noir with a twist from this team.
See also my reviews of these other Berg and Berggren TV series: Catch and Release and Outlier
And my 2022 interview with Berg and Berggren:
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