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The Best TV Shows on Yle Areena

Every Yle Areena Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Discover the best of Yle Areena with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for December 2024. Leading the pack on Yle Areena are Pimeän hehku and Kaverille ei jätetä, with their initial broadcasts in 1996 and 1999. Yle Areena has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1996 all the way to 2024.

  • Invisible Heroes
    Invisible Heroes (2019)8.0

    Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.

  • Kimmo
    Kimmo (2012)7.9

    The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo.

  • Pintaa syvemmältä
    Pintaa syvemmältä (2015)7.5

  • Unknown Soldier
    Unknown Soldier (2018)7.5

    The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.

  • Moominvalley
    Moominvalley (2019)7.3

    Follow the life and adventures of curious, kind and idealistic Moomintroll. A typical hero in a coming-of-age story, Moomintroll tries to tackle the puzzle of growing up to his true, individualistic self while remaining a beloved part of the family.

  • Modernit miehet
    Modernit miehet (2019)7.3

  • Kaverille ei jätetä
    Kaverille ei jätetä (1999)7.0

  • Karjalan kunnailla
    Karjalan kunnailla (2007)7.0

  • Helsinki Syndrome
    Helsinki Syndrome (2022)7.0

    Family man Elias Karo takes four journalist hostage at their newspaper’s headquarters, in a desperate attempt to get them to reveal the wrongdoing wreaked on his family during the 90's recession.

  • The Paradise
    The Paradise (2020)6.7

    Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.

  • Sekunnit
    Sekunnit (2024)6.6

  • Nerd: DragonSlayer666
    Nerd: DragonSlayer666 (2017)6.5

    Nineteen year old high-schooler has one dream: to become a professional esport player. However, there are many obstacles in the way of his dream, like nagging mother, niggling principal, and getting kicked out of the team.

  • Wingman
    Wingman (2016)6.4

    The series follows the lives of Juha "Juhis" Koski and Tommi Mäkinen-Renwall as neighbours. The men drift too far in their everyday challenges that lead to excessive outcomes. Unwillingly, Tommi and Juhis often find themselves in awkward and embarrassing situations where they are forced to choose one of two bad options. Tommi's wife and Juhis' good friend Harriet does her best to understand the men's antics.

  • Thin Ice
    Thin Ice (2020)6.4

    In Greenland, a climate meeting for the Arctic Council is in the process of agreeing on a new and historic climate agreement that prohibits all environmentally harmful oil drilling in the area when the political advisor to Sweden's Foreign Minister Elsa suddenly disappears during a visit to a research vessel.

  • ADULTS
    ADULTS (2019)4.7

    Oona (20-something) runs a small coffee shop in the heart of hipsteresque Kallio district in Helsinki. Oona’s is not really the classic entrepreneur type: she’s often late to work and throws out customers she dislikes. She’s also constantly in a state of existential crisis over what she should become and whether she’s a somebody or just a nobody. Oona’s best friend is Arttu, a 25 y.o. gay artist-dj-creator-whatever. Together they hate, love, party and cry and try to become adults.

  • Pimeän hehku
    Pimeän hehku (1996)N/A

  • Parasta aikaa
    Parasta aikaa (2009)N/A

  • Eränkävijät
    Eränkävijät (2016)N/A

  • Kakarat
    Kakarat (2020)N/A

  • Rahdinmetsästäjät
    Rahdinmetsästäjät (2022)N/A