Netflix fans are obsessed with a ‘deeply unsettling’ brand new Nordic crime drama – which boasts a perfect 100 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score. 

Secrets We Keep, a six-part Danish-language series, only dropped on the streamer yesterday – but its portrayals of gender and class tensions have already seen it compared to this year’s biggest hits, Adolescence and The White Lotus. 

The programme begins with the disappearance of a Filipino au pair named Ruby from an affluent Copenhagen neighbourhood. 

Neighbour Cecilie begins to suspect foul play – but as she investigates along with her own au pair Angel and rookie police officer Aicha, the woman uncovers darker truths than she ever expected. 

It is created by award-winning Danish screenwriter Ingeborg Topsøe and directed by Per Fly, known for his work on beloved Danish political drama Borgen, released from 2010 to 2022. 

Along with its high critical praise on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, fans are also already loving it, taking to X to praise the show. 

Netflix fans are obsessed with a ‘deeply unsettling’ brand new Nordic crime drama (pictured) – which boasts a perfect 100 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score

Secrets We Keep (pictured), a six-part Danish-language series, only dropped on the streamer yesterday

The programme begins with the disappearance of a Filipino au pair named Ruby (pictured) from an affluent Copenhagen neighbourhood

One said: ‘Secrets We Keep started out like a regular missing persons case but it gradually unravelled into a tangled web of social and Sєxual controversy that went right for the jugular. 

‘The show compelled you to question your own prejudice and biases as well. Deeply unsettling.’ 

Another added: ‘Secrets We Keep is a good thriller. Danish content. Basically, another example of Europeans making way better content than the hyped Americans.’ 

Someone else said: ‘There’s a Danish series on Netflix called Secrets We Keep. If you thought Adolescence was something educational, this is another.’ 

Critics have given it equal praise, with review site Collider dubbing it an ‘entertaining yet gripping and relevant whodunnit mini-series about tensions and suspicions between the haves and the have-notes’. 

It added: ‘It’s hard to imagine it won’t find an audience as Secrets We Keep explores similar thematic territory to this year’s most zeitgeisty hits Adolescence and The White Lotus and in some ways handles its dark material even better. 

‘You can watch this remarkably efficient thriller from start to finish in just over three hours and you should.’  

Marie Bach Hansen, known for her turn in 2019 film The Last Vermeer with Guy Pearce, about a Dutch artist accused of selling a valuable painting to the Nazis, takes the lead role of Cecilie.

Its portrayals of gender and class tensions have already seen it compared to this year’s biggest hits, Adolescence and The White Lotus

Neighbour Cecilie (pictured) begins to suspect foul play – but as she investigates along with her own au pair Angel and rookie police officer Aicha, the woman uncovers darker truths than she ever expected

It has received high critical praise on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer 

Fans are also already loving it, taking to X to praise the show

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It also stars Lars Ranthe, seen in the 2020 film Another Round with Mads Mikkelsen about high-school teachers who maintain a constant level of alcohol in their blood to aid creativity – which soon goes too far. 

Director Per has previously said of the series: ‘Beneath the polished surface, secrets and conflicts are simmering. 

‘I was curious to explore what happens when the facade begins to crack – and the human truths emerge.’ 

Creator Ingeborg added: ‘I enjoy experimenting with the genre because it requires the audience’s full attention, and placing a crime story in this particular setting is especially compelling. 

‘What happens when care and intimacy within the home are outsourced to an au pair? 

‘What does that stir in us – and in those closest to us? Does it reveal the best in us, or the worst?’

Secrets We Keep is available to stream on Netflix.