Some secrets — like mermaids — should stay beneath the surface in “Summer of 1985,” a Swedish series based on the latest novel by Let the Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Deadline debuted the trailer below, which channels shades of “Stranger Things,” The Shape of Water, Midsommar, and Stand by Me.
From Underworld: Awakening director and “The Bridge” co-creator Björn Stein, the six-episode show is slated to premiere on Sweden’s SVT later this year.
It centers on a group of friends preparing for an epic summer together in the Stockholm archipelago. The calm shatters when a local boy is found drowned near the mythical island of Svärtan. What seems like an accident becomes a murder investigation, exposing fractures within the tight-knit community.
Linus Rogsgård, Ture Nerman, Nelly Anderbro, Stina Kristiansen, Josefin Neldén, Sanna Sundqvist, and Rolf Lassgård star.
“Summer of 1985” is the first project under a new first-look deal between producer Media Res (“The Morning Show”) and distributor Fifth Season.
Jennifer Ebell, Fifth Season’s EVP Television Distribution, described the series as “a psychological coming-of-age thriller built for multi-generational viewing.”
