Inside Netflix Mega-Hit ‘Secrets We Keep’: Writer Ingeborg Topsøe on White Privilege and That Argued About Ending

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• streamer May 15, and has since captured around 40 million Netflix viewers worldwide.
• That’s quite a coup for Ingeborg Topsøe who signs her first fully-fledged TV show as a creator-writer, although her contributions to the Danish thrillers-psycho drama pics “The Charmer” (2017) and “Wildland” (2020) already established her name among top Nordic writers to watch.
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• also served as episodic writer on the Emmy-nominated Amazon show “Hanna.” Popular on Variety True to her taste for suspense drama, Topsøe has skilfully combined crime with social commentary in this six-part series, inspired by her own privileged upbringing, with au pairs as outsourced family support.
• Set in one of Copenhagen’s most affluent neighbourhoods, “Secrets We Keep” turns on the successful businesswoman and mother of two Cecilie, whose seemingly perfect life starts to crack when her neighbours’ Filipino au pair goes missing.