The New Force

2025, Show

The year is 1958, and Sweden's first female police officers graduate; a small group of pioneers taking a big step for gender equality but struggling to take even the smallest step themselves, as the skirts they're forced to wear chafe like sandpaper against their thighs. They are ridiculed by the public, belittled by the media, and scorned by their colleagues. The new recruits are placed in the country's most crime-ridden district; the Klara police district in Stockholm, and as they start patrolling the streets of Stockholm, they soon realize that their biggest problem isn't the criminals; instead, the resistance comes from colleagues and their own families.

Country: Sweden

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5.8

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Critic Season 1 Thomas Engström

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...ett mustigt och överraskande historiskt drama om de första kvinnliga poliserna i Sverige.

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Critic Season 1 Thindra Rundström

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Själva idén om att placera kvinnorna mitt i ett Klara-distrikt som sprakar av kriminalitet, sociala orättvisor och en ständigt skeptisk mansdominans är både dramatisk och historiskt intressant.

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