The Best TV Shows on Viaplay

Every Viaplay Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Viaplay has aired more than 20 shows between 2005 and 2025. Paradise Hotel and Thicker Than Water represent the pinnacle of Viaplay’s programming, launching in 2005 and 2014. As of April 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of Viaplay’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • All and Eva
    All and Eva (2024)10.0

    In the series Everything and Eva, we meet Eva who does not believe in love. However, she has decided to have children on her own and goes to Copenhagen to get donated sperm and chooses Mads - an open donor, who seems perfect.

  • The Truth Will Out
    The Truth Will Out (2018)7.2

    Could Sweden’s most notorious killer be innocent? Detective Peter Wendel struggles to hold together his fractured psyche – and mismatched cold case team – while uncovering the truth of a cryptic message.

  • Börje - The Journey of a Legend
    Börje - The Journey of a Legend (2023)7.2

    From a small town in Sweden to an NHL icon - the inspiring story of hockey legend Börje Salming and his road to international stardom and passionate love.

  • The Machinery
    The Machinery (2020)6.9

    Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint.

  • Love Me
    Love Me (2019)6.7

    Friendship, grief and romance intersect with love in the lives of three generations of people living in Stockholm.

  • Thicker Than Water
    Thicker Than Water (2014)6.5

    The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...

  • Swedish Dicks
    Swedish Dicks (2016)6.4

    Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.

  • Threesome
    Threesome (2021)6.3

    David and Siri are a young couple living in London. During a night out, they meet Camille and a flirtatious game arises where the boundaries are gradually dissolved. In an act of drunken curiosity, they have a threesome.

  • The Box
    The Box (2021)6.2

    Sharon Pici, a Kansas City Police Detective, is locked in a room that she cannot escape.

  • Professionals
    Professionals (2020)6.1

    After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, and his fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Graciela "Grace" Davila, turn to a hardened former counterintelligence officer.

  • The Beach Hotel
    The Beach Hotel (2023)6.0

    To celebrate his 60th birthday, Werner Gyllenmark holds a party at his beach hotel and invites his family, employees and even his arch-enemy, Egil Grip. But the event ends abruptly with an accident that shocks the entire town - and slowly but surely, explosive secrets emerge that some people will go to any lengths to keep hidden.

  • Rig 45
    Rig 45 (2018)5.9

    When Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident, the rig is hit by a hurricane and all communications lost. Soon, the crew realize that the accident is in fact a murder, and they now know that they are in real danger.

  • Alex
    Alex (2017)5.8

    Ruthless and corrupt police officer Alex has decided to come to terms with his dubious past and become clean. But the dark forces he has collaborated with earlier refuses to let him off the hook, putting both Alex and his family's lives at great danger. At the same time Alex gets a new partner, Frida, who secretly has been instructed to bring him down.

  • Hammarvik
    Hammarvik (2020)5.8

    When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother's funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young woman is found and she decides to stay and investigate what happened.

  • Black Lake
    Black Lake (2016)5.5

    An unsettling chain of events are set into motion when a group of young friends an visit an abandoned ski resort in the far reaches of Sweden. The remote and neglected Black Lake has been closed for years when Johan invites his friends to stay there. He dreams of reopening the isolated hotel and restoring it to a luxury ski resort, but what begins as a fun research trip soon takes a sinister turn as the group is gripped by a series of unexplained and disturbing events. They soon uncover the real reason Black Lake was abandoned all those years before, and solving the mystery rapidly becomes a matter of life and death.

  • The Lawyer
    The Lawyer (2018)5.4

    Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?

  • Paradise Hotel
    Paradise Hotel (2005)5.0

    A group of hot singles check into a luxury hotel in Mexico. Prepare for love, partying, betrayal and tears. Half a million kronor is at stake and anything can happen in paradise.

  • Thunder in My Heart
    Thunder in My Heart (2021)5.0

    22-year-old Sigrid - nicknamed Sigge - and her group of friends are confronted with the unexpected demands of adulthood as they attempt to come to terms with their own identities, their passions, and the past.

  • Honour
    Honour (2019)3.7

    Four partners at a law firm called "Heder" gain notoriety by helping victims of sex crimes and speaking out against patriarchy.

  • Mafia
    Mafia (2025)3.5

    The stark transformation of 1990s Sweden from peaceful to perilous as it follows the ascent of Radovan "Jakov" Jakovic from rags to criminal riches and Gunn Philak, the lone cop who sees the looming mafia menace in cigarette smuggling's shadow.