Beartown, an adaptation of a Swedish novel, has garnered impressive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. In this article, we provide a commentary review of the debut season of the Beartown series. We also touch upon expectations for the second season of Beartown.
Beartown, a Swedish series based on the novel of the same name, follows a Swedish community obsessed with ice hockey. “Beartown” written by Fredrik Bachmann was published in 2016 and quickly earned the title of “bestseller”. The novel series was also made into a movie, which premiered in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
About Beartown (Web Series)
Bear Town is a five-episode miniseries originally titled Bjornstad and based on the Swedish novel of the same name, which premiered on HBO Nordic in 2020. After a successful premiere on Nordic, the series debuted on HBO North America on February 22, 2021.
Beartown received critical acclaim but was later dropped by HBO in the US.
In 2022, with the debut of Paramount’s USA television network, Showtime received Beartown from HBO in addition to 20 other web series.
The web series is directed by Peter Grenlund (Goliath, Drifters) and adapted by Emmy Award-winning writers Anders Weidemann, Antonia Pike, and Lynn Gottfridsson. Additionally, the producers of the HBO series are Filmlance’s Bonnie Skoog Feeney and Mattias Arehn. Additionally, the executive producers are Fredrik Bachmann, president of the Salomonsson Agency, and Thor Jonasson. Executive producers for HBO Europe are Hanne Palmquist, Steve Matthews and Anthony Root. The Swedish series is produced for HBO Europe by Banijay Company’s Filmlance.
Is Beartown based on a novel?
The Swedish HBO series “Beartown” is based on the Swedish novel of the same name. The novel was published in Sweden in 2016, in the US in 2017, and made its way to the streaming giant in 2020.
Written by Fredrik Backman, Beartown is the first novel in the series, the other two being Us Against You and The Winners.
The book is ranked as one of Sweden’s best novels, but was removed from the reading list at McMichael High School in North Carolina after parents of students there called it “vulgar” and “graphic,” according to a report.
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Beartown: Review
The web series “Beartown” received mixed reviews on the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. In their reviews, several critics praised the series’ “extraordinary plot” and “excellent cast”, as well as mentioning Beartown as an entertaining web series.
Rotten Tomatoes top critic Matthew Gilbert highly praised the plot of the upcoming series. His book review said:
Taking the honesty of Friday Night Lights to a deeper, darker level, the five-part drama, based on Fredrik Backman’s 2017 novel, delves deeply into people in a community facing hardship, and I was blown away by its realism.
Will there be a Beartown season 2?
In an article by Warner Bros. Discoverythe highly anticipated series is described as a “Swedish-language limited drama” web series, so it’s unlikely that season 2 of Bear Town will be produced.
Meanwhile, the web series “Beartown” is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, which has two other series, “Us Against You” and “The Winners,” resulting in speculation of a spinoff of the Swedish series.
