End of Summer

On a summer's evening in 1984, a five-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion, and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy's older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm, when a young man describes a strangely familiar childhood memory of a disappearance. A shaken Vera travels home to her fractured family to uncover, once and for all, what really happened in the summer that never ended.

End of Summer (2024-2025) is a Swedish psychological mystery limited series created by Björn Carlström and Stefan Thunberg and broadcast on SkyShowtime. Its single six-episode season moves between a summer in 1984 and the present day. Vera Nilsson (Julia Ragnarsson) leads a group therapy session in Stockholm when a young man describes a strangely familiar childhood memory of a disappearance, and the memory unsettles her own past. She travels back to her fractured rural southern Swedish family to uncover what really happened to her five-year-old brother, who vanished one summer evening and whose case the police never solved. Vera works through rumors, suspicion and a grieving household where every relative carries a different version of events. Each episode peels back another layer of guilt and silence, building a slow, brooding atmosphere of dread and grief. Set against the quiet, sun-bleached countryside of Sweden, the series is a patient nordic noir that prizes emotional weight over shock. Fans of The Killing, Hinterland and The Missing will find resonance in its melancholic tone and its focus on a family unable to let a disappearance go.

• The Killing (2007)shared nordic noir mood, missing child mystery, rural small-town secrets and family trauma
• Hinterlandslow burn psychological mystery with a childhood disappearance haunting adults decades later
• The Missingshared melancholic psychological thriller tone and fractured family grief over a vanished child

Created by

Björn Carlström, Stefan Thunberg

Release Date

2024-12-26

Episode runtime

57 min

Rating

7.3 / 10 (13)

What is End of Summer about?

A Swedish mystery in which a grieving sister returns to her fractured family to reopen the 1984 disappearance of her younger brother.

What is End of Summer like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of End of Summer as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.

Is End of Summer violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in End of Summer as mild.

Which shows are like End of Summer?

Shows with a similar feel include The Killing (2007), Hinterland, and The Missing.

How long is End of Summer?

End of Summer: 1 season, 6 episodes.

Is End of Summer still running?

No, End of Summer has ended.

Where can I watch End of Summer?

In United States, End of Summer streams on Viaplay Amazon Channel.