Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is a Norwegian crime drama series released by Netflix on 26 March 2026, based primarily on The Devil’s Star and centred on Harry Hole, the troubled Oslo detective created by Jo Nesbø. Starring Tobias Santelmann as Harry and Joel Kinnaman as Tom Waaler, the series follows Hole as he investigates a string of ritualistic murders while also confronting corruption inside the police and his own self-destructive tendencies. Like the novels, it leans heavily into Nordic noir, but with a slightly broader, more action-driven scope than some earlier screen versions of Nesbø’s work.

This one is very closely tied to Oslo, and the city appears to have been used as a real dramatic environment rather than just a generic Scandinavian backdrop. Netflix confirmed that filming wrapped in Oslo in December 2024, while later coverage noted that the production used more than 100 locations across the city. Among the specifically identified places are Restaurant Schrøder, one of Harry Hole’s best-known haunts from the novels, St. Hanshaugen Park, the Grønland area around Oslo Police Headquarters, and the streets surrounding Harry’s fictional home at Sofies gate 5 near Bislett. Taken together, those locations suggest a series that moves through a recognisable mix of everyday Oslo streets, central institutions and neighbourhood spaces, which helps ground the story’s murders, corruption and emotional collapse in a very specific urban setting rather than an abstract noir landscape.