''Snabba Cash'' is a 2021 Swedish

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series written by

Jens Lapidus Jens Jacob Lapidus (; born 24 May 1974) is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author known for his books about the Stockholm underworld. Life and career Lapidus was born into a middle class family in the Stockholm suburb Gröndal, with a moth ...

and Oskar Söderlund (screenwriter) and directed by . It is based on Lapidus' ''

Stockholm Noir Jens Jacob Lapidus (; born 24 May 1974) is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author known for his books about the Stockholm underworld. Life and career Lapidus was born into a middle class family in the Stockholm suburb Gröndal, with a moth ...

'' novel trilogy, the first of which was adapted into three films: '' Easy Money'' (2010), '' Easy Money II: Hard to Kill'' (2012), and '' Easy Money III: Life Deluxe'' (2013). The series takes place in Stockholm, ten years after the film trilogy. In June 2021, a second season was announced and was released in September 2022.

Synopsis

In Season 1, Leya (Evin Ahmad), a single mother of Middle Eastern ancestry, is desperate for startup funding for an artificial intelligence firm she founded. Leya, like many others in the mostly immigrant housing developments where she resides, has few alternatives. She believes her only option is to borrow money from her drug-dealing brother-in-law Ravy (Dada Fungula Bozela), which jeopardises her future when he becomes a partner in her company. Season 2 takes place one year later. Leya is pushing her startup towards a public offering while Ravy battles a ruthless new competitor for control of the drug trade. Leya's connections with the underworld continue to threaten her successful business career.

Cast

Evin Ahmad Evin Ahmad ('';'' born ) is a Kurdish-Swedish actress and author. Early life Elvin Ahmad was born on 8 June 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents are Kurds. Her father is an actor from Sulaymaniyah in Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, tran ...

as Leya * Alexander Abdallah as Salim * Ayaan Ahmed as Nala * Ali Alarik as Tim * Dada Fungula Bozela as Ravy *

Olle Sarri Nils Olof "Olle" Fabian Sarri (born 20 January 1972) is a Swedish actor. His mother Inga Sarri was also an actress. Filmography Films *1989 - '' The Journey to Melonia'' *1996 - '' Monopol'' *1997 - '' Välkommen till festen'' *2000 - ''Togethe ...

as Thomas Storm * Nadja Christiansson as Ronja * Egon Ebbersten as Martin Wallin *

Peter Eggers Peter Eggers (born 1980) is a Swedish actor, best known for his starring role in the TV series '' Anno 1790''. Selected filmography *''Evil Evil, in a general sense, is defined as the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely b ...

as Marcus Werner * Love Ehn as Leon * Jozef Wojciechowicz as Dani * Alex Moore Eklund as Barre * Yussra El Abdouni as Fatima * Fredrik Evers as Tim's Father * Yasmine Garbi as Li * Khalil Ghazal as Osman *

Felice Jankell Felice Jankell is a Swedish actress. She is known for playing the lead role of "Sophie" in the movie Unga Sophie Bell. Acting career Unga Sophie Bell (''Young Sophie Bell'') was her feature film debut. She again played the female lead in :sv ...

as Viktoria

Episodes

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Reception

In his review for

Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

John Anderson describe the series as The show's insular worlds collide, revealing complex relationships and impending doom. Once established, the series becomes engrossing, exploring desperation's influence on actions.

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

Tobias Grey praised the show's creator, Oskar Soderlund, for highlighting the extreme versions of capitalism represented in these worlds, as how's adaptation of Jens Lapidus's novels modernizes crime in Stockholm, emphasizing the growth of organized crime and its brutality.{{Cite news , last=Grey , first=Tobias , date=2021-04-14 , title='Snabba Cash' Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money and Blood , language=en-US , work=The New York Times , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/arts/television/snabba-cash-netflix.html , access-date=2023-08-17 , issn=0362-4331

References

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External links

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