# The New Force (2025)

> An understaffed 1950s Stockholm police district tests a bold experiment by admitting its first female officers.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/178212

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 40 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: drama, history
- Created by: Patrik Ehrnst, Antonia Pyk, Elin Randin
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Josefin Asplund, Agnes Westerlund Rase, Malin Persson, Christopher Wagelin, Rasmus Luthander, Cilla Thorell, Hannes Fohlin, Jimmy Lindström
- TMDB rating: 6.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31828197/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: sober, contemplative, restrained, hopeful, measured

## Synopsis

The New Force (Skiftet) (2025) is a Swedish historical drama series created by Patrik Ehrnst, Antonia Pyk and Elin Randin and produced by Art & Bob for Netflix. Set in 1950s Stockholm, it follows an understaffed police district that launches a bold experiment by bringing in its first group of female officers. Josefin Asplund plays Carin Eriksson, Agnes Westerlund Rase plays Siv Morell, and Malin Persson plays Ingrid Gustafsson, three women navigating suspicion from colleagues and a force unused to their presence, while Christopher Wagelin plays Johan Reimer among the male officers whose attitudes are tested. The engine of the series lies in the daily friction of recruits learning patrol work, handling street cases and proving their competence in a department that doubts them at every turn. Its single season runs six episodes of roughly forty minutes each, a compact, character-driven arc rather than a case-of-the-week format. The show draws on the tradition of Scandinavian period drama, with a restrained, grounded register that is measured and quietly tense. Its tone is sober and contemplative, with moments of wry humor and hope amid institutional resistance. Fans of Mad Men and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will find resonance in its portrait of women pushing against entrenched workplace norms in a postwar setting.

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