In the town of Fortitude, incidents seem to be good and stability seems to exist, but in fact it's a community of corruption and crime, where people struggle against being abuse and exploited from the evil forces, the thing that leads a group to face those criminals. In an attempt to arrest the serial killer, Sheriff Anderssen and the team investigate in the case.
A hot-blooded murder mystery set in the cold of the Arctic Circle, Fortitude has an impressive cast headed up by Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon, and an atmosphere that draws you in immediately.
Every fledging network needs that one show to give people a reason to find it, and for Pivot it's the new drama Fortitude, an original and visually arresting work about mysterious doings in a town in the far corner of Antarctica.
The capable and compelling Fortitude generally hews to forms that have emerged in the Remote Noir subgenre; it's a welcome entrant into a crowded TV field.
The resplendent panoramic visuals are a show in themselves. So the bigger your HD screen the better, with Fortitude's overriding whodunit gradually firming its grip while those icy, snowy vistas stay strong.
There's incentive enough to hang around in the frozen north for another episode or two. But it needs sharper focus or there may be an epidemic of cold feet.
