Jordskott

Jordskott (, "soil shoot") is a Swedish TV thriller, crime drama series with fantasy elements. Police detective Eva Thörnblad (Moa Gammel) investigates the disappearance of her daughter and other mysteries in her hometown of Silverhöjd. The title refers to jordskott, a fictional plant parasite, which enhances one's perceptions but feeds off the host's blood. The series was first broadcast by SVT in 2015 with ten episodes. Filming took place in Sala and Ragunda in mid-2014. The series then began broadcasting on ITV Encore in the UK on June 10, 2015, and on Canal+ Seriale in Poland on October 10, 2016. Following positive reception and strong international sales for the first series, a second series of eight episodes, Jordskott II, followed. It aired from 15 October 2017 in Sweden. It was then screened on ITV Encore in the UK from 19 October onwards and on Shudder in the US from 18 January 2019 onwards. Plot The first season of Jordskott is set in mid-2014. Police detective Eva Thörnblad (Moa Gammel), returns to her hometown of Silverhöjd, seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared beside a forest lake. Josefine's body was never found and local police determined that she had drowned. Upon Eva's return, a local boy has been missing for a week and she looks for similarities between the two disappearances. At the same time, she deals with the death and probate of her late father and his large timber felling, silver mining and processing business, Thörnblad Mineral & Cellulosa.