The Best TV Shows on Viaplay

Every Viaplay Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of March 2026, showcases over 20 of Viaplay’s highest-rated series. Icons of Viaplay, Paradise Hotel and Thicker Than Water made their debut in 2005 and 2014, setting industry standards. Boasting a rich catalog, Viaplay features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2005 to 2023.

  • The Ambassador
    The Ambassador (2020)8.0

    At the Swedish embassy in Mexico City, the staff tries to do everything to promote the image of Sweden. But for the selfish ambassador Thomas Hofwander, it is mainly about lifting himself.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Live Life
    Live Life (2023)6.5

    Meet Nora, a young and vibrant journalist with a promising future ahead of her. But just as she’s about to take on the world, fate throws her a cruel curveball: a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.

  • 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.

  • Rig 45
    Rig 45 (2018)6.1

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • A Class Apart
    A Class Apart (2021)5.4

    When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.

  • 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.

  • Paradise Hotel
    Paradise Hotel (2005)3.3

    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.

  • Svenska fall
    Svenska fall (2018)N/A

  • Frozen Roads
    Frozen Roads (2018)N/A

    Follow along to a sparkling Sweden, up in the North, where snow and ice is an every day thing for salvager's and snow clearer's, but not comfortable for big city dwellers during their temporary visits. Follow the heroes that transforms the northern vastness to travel-able areas.