Heartless (TV series)

Heartless is a Danish drama series from 2014 on Kanal 5 and is produced in the Danish language with maturity ratings TV-MA for mature audiences. It was directed by Natasha Arthy, produced by Ronnie Fridthjof, Signe Emilie Bjorke, and Bo Mortensen; script by Nikolaj Scherfig and Morten Dragsted.^[1] In the show, twins Sebastian and Sofie enroll in Ottsmansgaard boarding school hoping to discover the secret of their supernatural curse.^[2]

The first season was released on Netflix in Canada and the United States in April 2016. It is currently being shown by Walter Presents on British Channel 4.

Description

The siblings Sophie and Sebastian both carry on a dark, and fatal secret. In order to live, they have to suck energy out of other people. If they do not stop in time, their prey is somehow ignited and burns to ashes. In the beginning of the series, they are unaware of their origin or parentage; raised in an orphanage they only know they have each other.

Sofie and Sebastian try to get answers as to why they are, as they are - and their sleuthing leads them to the gloomy and traditional boarding school Ottmannsgaard. Here reigns the strict headmaster Just, and the alpha male Ditlev ruling ruthlessly with students whose teenager drives is fully outside the starched school uniforms.

At the boarding school begins a new life for the siblings, each of which have to contend with strong emotions as they experience their first serious love affair, while at the same time resist their fatal urge to suck energy from the other students.

But Sofie and Sebastian are not the only ones on Ottmannsgaard, carrying a dark secret. As the series progresses, flashbacks of history that goes back to the year 1666, which is about sin and forgiveness, life and death, love and betrayal, witches and the damned. Will Sebastian and Sofie be able to find out where they came from? Will these answers be the ones they wanted? And will they find more than they bargained for? ^[3]

Characters

Character	Actor	Description
Sebastian	Sebastian Jessen^[4]	Brother who wants to be normal.
Sofie	Julie Zangenberg^[5]	Quiet and brooding sister.
Emilie	Julie Christiansen^[6]
Rector Just	Nicolaj Kopernikus^[7]
Ida	Katrine Greis-Rosenthal^[8]
Pieter	Allan Hyde^[9]
Frederik	Thomas Ernst^[10]
Josefline	Julie Grundtvig Wester^[11]
Ditlev	Gustav Dyekjær Giese^[12]
Miriam	Petrine Agger^[13]
Nadja	Frederikke Dahl Hansen^[14]
Gustav	Christopher Læssø^[15]
Clara	Marie Hammer Boda^[16]
Count Ottman	Lior Cohen^[17]
Countess Ottman	Laura Christensen^[18]
Ane	Shelly Jacquline Levy^[19]
Lark	Molly Blixt Egelind^[20]
Pede	Morten Holst^[21]
Kirsten Nielsen	Elsebeth Steentoft^[22]
Guy from Rock Club	Casper Steffensen^[23]
Student #3	Cecilia Black^[24]
White Trash	Ole Dupont^[25]
Agnete	Ida Dwinger^[26]
Priest	Morten Hauch-Fausbøll^[27]
Valet	Lasse Nicolai Voss^[28]

Episodes

	Denmark Channel 5	Netflix Canada
Season 1	28 April 2014	April 2016
Season 2

Season	Episodes	Originally Aired
Season	Episodes	Started	Ended
1	8
2	8

Season One (2014)

	Length	Description
Episode 1	44m	Twin siblings Sebastian and Sofie enroll in Ottmansgaard boarding school hoping to discover the secret of their supernatural natures.
Episode 2	45m	The twins discover why their mother attended Ottsmansgaard. Sofie's roommate falls for Sebastian. Ditlev and the prefects prepare the haze the new students.
Episode 3	46m	Sofie and Emilie's friendship deepens. The twins discover that their secret dates back many years. Ditlev's obsession with Sofie remains a problem.
Episode 4	45m	Emilie's father investigates a shocking death close to the school. The twins try to keep their secret from Nadja. Sebastian falls for a servant.
Episode 5	43m	The twins must take drastic action to prevent Nadja from learning their secret. Sebastian has to deal with Josefine's violent ex-boyfriend.
Episode 6	44m	Headmaster Just hunts the black-eyes at the school while his daughter Emilie learns Sofie's secret. The twins discover a graveyard in the forest.
Episode 7	46m	The twins team up with a stranger to hunt the gold heart, with fatal consequences. Just reveals how far he's willing to go to fight the black-eyes.
Episode 8	45m	The truth comes out about Sofie and Sebastian's curse and the death of Emilie's mother, forcing her to decide between the twins and her own family.

References

External links

Heartless on danskefilm.dk
Heartless at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Heartless in Movie Database
Heartless on Facebook

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