Fortitude
Fortitude debuted last year on the Sky Atlantic channel. Fortitude is a tiny, seemingly perfect town in the heart of the Arctic. There’s no unemployment, there’s no crime, and everyone appears happy. Obviously that won’t last, or else it’d be a terribly boring show.
The town’s perfect facade begins to crumble, but what makes Fortitude brilliant is how it seamlessly leaps from genre to genre. It starts as a standard murder investigation, with Stanley Tucci’s English detective as the foil to the corrupt sheriff in the town. But then, it shifts from a murder investigation to an environmental disaster. Then it shifts into horror and abandons the murder focus. It’s very strange, but very enthralling. Each episode leaves you with more questions than answers and you’ll constantly make predictions that the show will soon prove wrong.. Thankfully, all questions are answered, and unlike many shows, it has an excellent conclusion.
Get past Fortitude’s initial slow pacing and you won’t be sorry. There’s only one season, but it’s 100 percent worth your time. Fortitude is one of the shows that gets its hooks in you and you can’t look away. It’s available to watch on Amazon Prime.
