When shows are elevated at , the world’s entertainment market held at Cannes each year, you know they’re worth seeing. Sweden’s Agent Hamilton was one such show, dubbed a ‘must-see’ series by , and has got the go-ahead to shoot season 2.
Based on the best-selling Hamilton novels by Jan Guillou, Agent Hamilton stars Jakob Oftebro (who SBS viewers may recognise from ) in the titular role as Carl, who’s just returned to Stockholm where the city’s reeling from a series of cyberattacks and bombings.
Desperate to find their source, SÄPO, Sweden’s secret service, enlists Agent Hamilton, who’d left the service, in their elite black-ops division alongside Agent Kristin Ek (Nina Zanjani, Wallander). The pair embark on a chase around the world, their effort leading them to discover the forces behind the attacks are much darker than the usual suspects.
Added to this action-packed quest is Hamilton’s past – he trained as a Navy SEAL in the US, leading some of his colleagues, including Ek, to suspect he’s a CIA double agent, all unbeknownst to Hamilton himself. With the looming suspect – an organisation taking advantage of xenophobia, terrorism and fake news to turn a profit – sparking a new ‘Cold War’, Hamilton faces a choice about what kind of future he sees for his country in a world where multinational business interests have become the new ideologies.
Nina Zanjani as Agent Kristin Ek. Source: SBS
Involving Russian, American and Swedish intelligence services, this multilingual series is anchored by an English-language narrative and sizzles with the chemistry between the leading pair.
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