Ah, Scandi-noir — or Nordic noir, if you want. It’s a under no circumstances-ending sequence of snowy landscapes, men and women in sweaters and loads of contemplation of everyday living and demise. Outlier, a new Norwegian import, requires that theme and provides the “you simply cannot go home again” trope into the mix. Does the formula do the job?

OUTLIER: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: A truck drives down a snowy street in Northern Norway. As we search inside of the truck, a afraid woman is in the back, respiration greatly in panic.

The Gist: A younger girl named Elle (Eila Ballovara Varsi) is coming property from a bash overnight as she walks, she sees a mobile phone in the snow. It’s ringing so she solutions, but the relationship is bad. She holds on to the telephone when she arrives property, her father acquiring on her scenario for coming in late when they have to feed the reindeer the following morning.

In the meantime, in London, Maja Angell (Hanne Mathisen Haga), a PhD scholar in criminology, is educating a course about serial killers in her lecture, she talks about how a serial killer’s “soft targets” are largely female and that the killers are typically make, trying to get revenge. At home, she’s instructed by her professor/mentor/boyfriend Edward (Benjamin Noble) that he’s getting issues and to keep her private knowledge out of her lectures.

When the telephone Elle identified will get another phone, she finds out that