# The best Danish TV series of all time

From Matador and Huset på Christianshavn to The Killing, Borgen and Seaside Hotel: the Danish series at the top of the YouGov poll reported by Filmz and W3blog's list of the millennium's best.

- 11 votes · 16 items
- Nov 3, 2020 · moviejunkie_grumpy
- https://even.best/en/l/4316/the-best-danish-tv-series-of-all-time

## Top 15

1. **Unit One (2000)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A mobile police unit solves murders around the country.
2. **Matador (1978)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lise Nørgaard and Erik Balling: a provincial town from 1929 until after the war.
3. **Huset på Christianshavn (1970)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The residents of an old house in Christianshavn.
4. **The Legacy (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Siblings who inherit an artist's estate on Funen.
5. **The Eagle (2004)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — An investigator with Icelandic roots fights international crime.
6. **Better Times (2004)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A family chronicle from 1949 to the 1970s.
7. **Borgen (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Birgitte Nyborg becomes Denmark's first female prime minister.
8. **Klown (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen in excruciating situations.
9. **Seaside Hotel (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Summer guests at a North Sea beach hotel in the 1920s and 30s.
10. **Follow the Money (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Financial crime at a large energy company.
11. **The Protectors (2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bodyguards of the Danish security service.
12. **Rita (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A headstrong schoolteacher who does things her own way.
13. **The Spider (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A journalist and the post-war black market in Copenhagen.
14. **The Killing (2007)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Sarah Lund and her jumper; world-class Nordic noir.
15. **The Bridge (2011)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A body on the Øresund Bridge and a Danish-Swedish pair of detectives.
16. **The Kingdom (1994)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Lars von Trier: ghosts and doctors at Copenhagen's main hospital.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.