Love & Anarchy (Swedish: Kärlek och anarki) is a Swedish romantic comedy television series. It is Netflix's second Swedish-language series, following Quicksand. It was produced by the same company, FLX. The series was created by Lisa Langseth, who also served as the head writer, together with Alex Haridi. The story follows a professional married woman with children who finds herself playing a daring game with a young male employee.
The first season premiered on 4 November 2020, the second on 16 June 2022.
Contents
Premise
Sofie is an ambitious consultant and married mother of two children living in Stockholm. When Sofie receives the order to restructure an old and well-established publishing house, Lund & Lagerstedt, her orderly life begins to fall apart at the seams. It begins when she meets the young IT expert Max, for whom she has unexpected and daring flirtation. In the process, they develop a game whereby they both take turns challenging each other to do things that contradict established social norms.
Their harmless games soon turn into bitter seriousness as the challenges, and the resulting consequences, become bigger and more uncontrollable.
Cast and characters
Ida Engvoll as Sofie Rydman, a successful consultant and married mother of two
Björn Mosten as Max Järvi, the IT temp at Lund & Lagerstedt
Johannes Bah Kuhnke as Johan Rydman, Sofie's controlling and manipulative husband, a successful commercial director
Björn Kjellman as Ronny Johansson, the weak-willed CEO of Lund & Lagerstedt
Reine Brynolfsson as Friedrich Jägerstedt, one of the veteran publishers at Lund & Lagerstedt
Gizem Erdogan as Denise Konar, one of the veteran publishers at Lund & Lagerstedt
Carla Sehn as Caroline Dahl, the receptionist at Lund & Lagerstedt
Episodes
Reception
Critical response
Love & Anarchy was met with a very positive reviews from critics.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 7 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.0/10.
Reviewing for The Age, Debi Enker awarded the first season with a four out of five star rating, noting: "Love & Anarchy can be laugh-out-loud funny, sexy and sad. Although the final episode suggests that Langseth didn't quite know how to end the story, for the most part it's an enjoyable and unusual ride."
