Acquitted

About Acquitted

After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.

Acquitted is a crime series that ran on TV 2 Direkte. Its 2 seasons and 18 episodes were broadcast from March 2015 to December 2016.

The series is filed under nordic noir, hometown, norway, and murder mystery. Nicolai Cleve Broch appears as Aksel Borgen, Tobias Santelmann as Erik Nilsen, Synnøve Macody Lund as Tonje Sandvik, and Lena Endre as Eva Hansteen.

It streams on Viaplay Amazon Channel in the United States.

The Bridge, Lilyhammer, and Beforeigners make useful companions to Acquitted. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 56 votes and it carries a NR rating.