The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
2004
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 24 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 DA
⏱️ 60 min/episode
CrimeDrama
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland.
The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.
Where to Watch (US)
Stream
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Seasons
Season 1
The enigmatic Hallgrim Hallgrimsson is on his way to Iceland to see his sick mother when he is called back because a policeman has been killed at Copenhagen airport. Four murders and a daring rescue later detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson, AKA The Eagle, accepts a position in the police commissioner's new team so he can work on solving the case.
Season 2
Hallgrim moves into the Opera Hotel to recuperate and, like the hero in the Hitchcock film Rear Window, becomes fascinated by a beautiful young woman in a flat opposite. When he sees a man enter and start beating her, he films the attack and he recognises the man as Benjamin Stern, an unscrupulous member of the Israeli mafia. He later discovers a disturbing connection with a child pornography ring.
Season 3
Hallgrim and his Swedish colleague Rydén set up a giant sting to catch a well-known and totally ruthless drug dealer who has avoided capture for years.
Cast
Crew
Writer
Peter Thorsboe, Mai Brostrøm
Network
DR1
Keywords
human traffickingorganized crimemoral ambiguityterrorismtask forcecrime investigationnordic noirinternational crimepsychological dramaexistential crisis