Netflix’s new Nordic noir jumps up UK charts despite having “big gaps in logic”
Digital Spy · 7 Nov 2026

Netflix’s new Nordic noir jumps up UK charts despite having “big gaps in logic”

A new four-part Swedish thriller has stormed up the Netflix charts this weekend. A Couple of Lies – or Bytet in the original Swedish – is based on the novel by Stefan Ahnhem. It's centred on two couples who swap homes between Sicily and Stockholm, only for their respective abodes to reveal increasingly dark secrets. Think of it as The Holiday with a nefarious edge, then.


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