Quicksand tv series series#
When her defense attorney appears to unravel the mystery, thus begins a series of flashbacks in which - piece by piece - the rest of the story is revealed, not only to Maja herself but to the audience. She’s in a state of shock, and claims to have no real memory of the events leading up to the shooting, as well as the attack itself. Her body and clothes are covered in blood and gunshot residue. The girl, 18-year old Maja (tenderly played by rising star, Hanna Ardéhn) is immediately taken into custody and arrested for inciting murder, attempted murder, and murder itself. The story begins with a bang, literally, as several students and their teacher (in a progressive, upscale high school) are gunned down in a single classroom, apparently at the hands of two students who have recently been embroiled in a turbulent romantic relationship.
So are the countless books, movies and TV shows which no doubt spring from a cautionary place but which may (ironically) serve to dramatize/glorify the persona of the lone shooter, the misunderstood and often bullied outsider whose only solution is slaughter.īreaking the mold, and hailing from a part of the world where school violence is a rarity, is a new 6-part series from Sweden, Quicksand (Störst av allt). Since then, the incidences of school shootings on American soil have become far too commonplace. history: the tragic shooting at Columbine which took the lives of 12 and injured 24 others. This week marked the 20th anniversary of one of the saddest days in U.S.
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