Viaplay July 2023 Schedule Announced

The Viaplay July 2023 titles have been announced and include a crime drama series, a short form dark horror series, and a documentary. As the Nordic region’s leading streaming platform and producer of original content, Viaplay continues to bring premium titles to North America.

The Viaplay July 2023 lineup includes Black Sands, a Nordic Noir crime drama series, the short form series and Viaplay Original Talent Awards winner No Angel, a dark horror series wrapped in a pink bow, and the documentary Philosopher of the Sea, following an 83-year-old’s daring solo voyage 15,000 miles across the open sea.

Viaplay is the leading producer of high-quality and psychologically penetrating series and films from the Nordic region — a genre known as Nordic Noir — whether that be atmospheric and suspenseful crime dramas, provocative and stylish young adult series, or dark comedies.

The Viaplay July 2023 slate is available to stream in the US via apps on iOS (Apple’s App Store) and Android (Google Play) mobile phones and tablets; Chromecast devices; Smart TVs, Android TV, Google TV, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV streaming devices; as well as on web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari).

The service is also available through Comcast’s Xfinity and Xumo platforms and as part of The Roku Channel’s Premium Subscriptions line-up.

Read on to learn more about the Viaplay July 2023 programming.

JULY HIGHLIGHTS

NO ANGEL – Exclusive US & CA Premiere Thursday, July 6, 2023

Viaplay Original Talent Awards Winner

This is black humor, neatly packaged in a glittery pink case. An entertaining roller-coaster where Angelica is rebelling against the traditional female prejudice, while maintaining her high school status as the queen bee.

She is like any seventeen-year-old girl, she parties, smokes and sleeps with boring guys to make time go by. Only one teeny tiny problem: Angelica is a serial killer. (4 short form episodes)

PHILOSOPHER OF THE SEA – Exclusive US & CA Premiere Tuesday, July 11, 2023

At the ripe age of 83, Swedish sailor Sven Yrvind has become a renowned figure around the world for his solo voyages across the oceans. For the last five years, we have had the privilege to observe closely as Yrvind puts together his boat and readies himself for the difficulty of being alone on the open sea – a journey spanning almost 15,000 miles from Ireland to New Zealand, estimated to take 300 days.

Although many view Yrvind’s project as a reckless venture, he himself believes that he is one of the few sane people in the world. However, the real exploration behind this journey is of a much deeper nature; an exploration into how we choose to live our lives.

BLACK SANDS – Exclusive US Premiere Thursday, July 20, 2023

Nominee, Actress of the Year, Iceland Edda Awards; Nominee, Best Set Design, Iceland Edda Awards; Nominee, Best Cinematography, Iceland Edda Awards; Nominee, Best Visual Effects, Iceland Edda Awards; Nominee, Best Editing, Iceland Edda Awards; Nominee, Television Show of the Year, Iceland Edda Awards; and Nominee, Supporting Actress of the Year, Iceland Edda Awards.

Featuring beautiful cinematography around Iceland’s famous black sands, the dark crime drama follows a troubled police officer forced back to her hometown. Confronting her abusive mother is unavoidable, but the discovery of a body changes everything.

In what turns out to be her first case, she discovers a serial killer has been operating for years, disguising murders as accidents. (4 episodes)

VIAPLAY JULY 2023 SCHEDULE

AVAILABLE JULY 6

No Angel – Horror Series – US & CA Premiere
This is black humor, neatly package in a glittery pink case. An entertaining roller-coaster where Angelica is rebelling against the traditional female prejudice, while maintaining her high school status as the queen bee.

She is like any seventeen-year-old girl, she parties, smokes and sleeps with boring guys to make time go by. Only one teeny tiny problem: Angelica is a serial killer. (Four, 15-minute episodes)

AVAILABLE JULY 11

Philosopher of the Sea – Documentary – US & CA Premiere
At the ripe age of 83, Swedish sailor Sven Yrvind has become a renowned figure around the world for his solo voyages across the oceans. For the last five years, we have had the privilege to observe closely as Yrvind puts together his boat and readies himself for the difficulty of being alone on the open sea – a journey spanning almost 15,000 miles from Ireland to New Zealand, estimated to take 300 days.

Although many view Yrvind’s project as a reckless venture, he himself believes that he is one of the few sane people in the world. However, the real exploration behind this journey is of a much deeper nature; an exploration into how we choose to live our lives.

AVAILABLE JULY 20

Black Sands – Crime Drama Series – US Premiere
Featuring beautiful cinematography around Iceland’s famous black sands, the dark crime drama follows a troubled police officer forced back to her hometown. Confronting her abusive mother is unavoidable, but the discovery of a body changes everything.

In what turns out to be her first case, she discovers a serial killer has been operating for years, disguising murders as accidents. (8 episodes)

AVAILABLE JULY 25

Norwegian Crime Cases Season 3 – True Crime Series – US & Canada Premiere
A documentary series based on Norwegian crime cases. Each episode focuses on one case, on how it was solved and the stories of the persons involved. (5 episodes)

AVAILABLE JULY 27

Thunder in My Heart Season 2 – Dramedy Series – US & Canada Premiere
One of Viaplay’s highest-rated Swedish series follows a group of young friends as they come of age and strive to meet the unexpected demands of adult life while coming to terms with their own identities, pasts, and passions. (8 episodes)

ON YOUR RADAR – AVAILABLE TO BINGE

In addition to the new Viaplay July 2023 titles, check out the following programming on the streaming service.

Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled – Documentary
Actor. Director. Script writer. Author. Activist. Honorary Oscar winner. Few women carry all these titles, and even fewer do it successfully to the level of Liv Ullmann for 62 years and counting.

This intimate portrait explores the greatness, legacy and longevity in the life of a world-famous artist, but it also explores the struggles all women face in their fight for having a career, a voice and the respect they deserve – a fight that Liv Ullmann has been fighting long before modern feminism.

The documentary series features some of Liv’s closest collaborators from her seven decades in film, including Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, Jeremy Irons, Sam Waterston and Pernilla August. (3 episodes)

The Architect – Young Adult Short Form Drama
Set in a not-so-distant future, in a grey, cold and alienating Oslo, the series follows Julie (Eili Harboe, Succession) an aspiring architect, who lands a job as an intern in a major architect firm, and a room in an underground parking garage turned housing space for people unable to afford normal accommodations.

The series is filled with humorous and relevant points about the heated housing market in major cities. (Four, 18-minute episodes)

One of the Boys – Young Adult Short Form Drama
“One of the boys” is a coming-of-age miniseries that works with themes such as sexuality, masculinity, bullying, queerness and not least – feeling different.

It’s a sensitive, funny, heart breaking and poetic glimpse of a small, hyper masculine provincial town in Denmark as one boy feels pressure to fit in with other boys, while struggling with his romantic feelings for a charming new boy. (Four, 15-minute episodes)

Face to Face Season 2 – Intense Interrogation Drama
After the death of his daughter, everyone, friend or foe, is subject to interrogation with no methods off limits. But at what cost? Unravel the dark secrets in this red-threaded crime anthology.

Starring highly celebrated Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, a seven-time winner of Best Actress at the Danish Film Awards (Robert), including a Best Actress nomination for Face to Face. (Eight 30-minute episodes)

The Congregation (Knutby) – Viaplay Original Series
Depicts the events of the Christian cult of Knutby in the early 2000s, taking place in a rural small town in Sweden. Anna, a young and naive woman, moves to Knutby to become part of the free church congregation as a nanny, which to her seems like a warm and pious community.

But soon the idyll that never existed crackles, and manipulation, power games, social exclusion, group pressure, brainwashing, fanaticism and both more and less religiously sanctioned left-wing chatter end in murder and grief. (2021, 6 episodes)

Delete Me Season 2 – Viaplay Original Series
Sanna (Sofia Tjelta Sydness) is no longer the coolest kid in school. After being humiliated by her boyfriend, and with her plans to move to New York on ice due to the coronavirus, she is working as a waitress in Oslo while dreaming of an influencer career on YouTube.

Desperate for fame, Sanna follows advice from her favorite influencer and makes the fateful decision to sell intimate pictures of herself online. (2022, 6 episodes)