Ehtoolehto - Sunset Grove S1 2025 Based on novels by Minna Lindgren, screenplay by Johanna Hartikainen, Markus Mäkelä and Helena Sorva, directed by Severi Koivusalo and Taru Mäkelä. A Finnish TV series set in a retirement home.
Siiri, Irma, and Anna-Liisa live in a retirement home. Siiri becomes upset when one of the cooks at the home dies. The trio attend the funeral and find out he killed himself. Poking into his life they find out more troubling stuff. The home is run by a horrible woman, the trio poking about brings more interesting info to light. When Irma becomes upset she's taken to the nursing home part of the retirement home. It's a dingy place run by another horrible home. The poor people are drugged and strapped to their beds.
There are oodles of characters, some are customers, some are staff and some are outsiders who interact with the folk in the home. The trio meet a biker friend of the dead cook, he helps them a lot in their investigations, there is some serious badness going on. Irma is eventually rescued, the baddies arrested and order restored.
Reviewers are calling it a comedy cozy. It's got that going on but there's a nice dark edge to it. The cast is grew and there's plenty of nice scenery. It's set in winter so there's plenty of snowy scenes. I particularly liked the train rides through town.
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