It is back after debuting two years ago on Sky Atlantic “Fortitude” with new dangers for the residents of the fictional Arctic Norwegian settlement of Fortitude. The first series started with a murder with the mystery going to reveal townsfolk were turned zombie like murderers due to a festering mammoth corpse, and the wasps concealed in the carcass. Later the wasp and a graveyard for mammoths is destroyed. Is that the end of the menace?
The new series starts with an incident happening back in 1942 at a Russian weather station were dead bodies are found. The new mystery then begins to unravel a man who as killed a number of people and a baby is shot in the back, shot twice but gets up both times and walks away with a suggestion of cannibalism.
In the towns supermarket there is an incident just to put the viewer on their toes. Could the madness of the first series still be in the air – no just a petty argument? I suppose the body count this time around will be high, hopefully, thin out the residents of Fortitude even more but there are a few new faces including a Hollywood star.
The body count kicks off with two female police officers uncovering a body of a decapitated man at the side of the road buried in the snow, it was no accident. On his way somewhere he stops, looks up at the blood aurora, looking down there is a shadowy figure standing in front of him. He was earlier in the pub the night before sprouting doom and gloom about the “blood aurora”, and children and cannibals.
New cast member and Hollywood superstar Dennis Quaid plays crap fisherman Michael Lennox is desperate to get to see but first the fuel to the fishing fleet was cut off and then there was a fire on his boat. He is husband to (Michelle Fairley, of Game of Thrones fame) who is sick and could be terminally ill.
There were some ends to tie up from the first series the biggest one, where is the sheriff? He is believed to be dead with the governors-estranged husband searching for him out on the glacier. With the need for a new sheriff, the governor sets out to find her husband and bring him back to Fortitude. Once back in Fortitude, just outside the town they nearly run over someone wondering down the road. When confronted it turns out to be the sheriff they were looking for and he does not look right and attacks is friend.
When Fortitude falls too much into police procedural trappings, it can feel like Broadchurch in particularly woolly sheep's clothing. However, the early signs suggest that it is keen to build upon the elements of psychological horror – with a splash of Seventies exploitation gore. If it continues to walk this line on a tight leash, Sky may just have the blockbuster.
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