Per Fly’s latest offers a masterclass in controlled unease—balancing immaculate surfaces with the submerged forces of guilt, power, and silent complicity.
In Netflix’s most-streamed global series to date, Secrets We Keep, a young au pair disappears into the stillness of Denmark’s most privileged suburb. But this is no conventional mystery. What unfolds is an elegant, deeply unsettling exploration of the social structures that allow such absences to persist unnoticed.
She just opened her laptop... and her store was already selling
Launch a high-performing online store with Elementor eCommerce Hosting – now up to 75% off for their birthday. Ends June 16.
The Architecture of Affluence
Set in the fabled Whisky Belt, the show finds a visual language for privilege: minimalist interiors, pristine lawns, and an eerie quiet that borders on the unreal. It is a world curated to perfection—and all the more fragile for it.
AMG Presents Moonboots
Marie Bach Hansen’s Cecilie is a triumph of performance: her serenity is brittle, her conscience vividly alive beneath the surface.
Unseen, Essential, Erased
The series turns its lens toward Denmark’s invisible workforce: the young Filipino au pairs who tend to children and homes while navigating their own quiet dislocations. With grace, Secrets We Keep makes space for their rituals, their intimacies, and their inner worlds—without sentimentalising or simplifying.
A Domestic Drama, Prised Open
The aquarium in Cecilie’s living room becomes both symbol and silent witness. When it cracks, it signals the rupture of control. Her daily shoreline runs are less escape than confrontation—a ritual of reckoning.
Atmosphere as Emotional Logic
Per Fly and composer Halfdan E weave a soundscape of sacred choral textures and restrained dissonance. The auditory design is less score than echo—subtle, haunting, deliberate.
The Boys and the Gaze
The friendship between Viggo and Oscar introduces another form of silence: that of adolescent complicity. Their drone footage, voyeuristic and callous, reflects not just curiosity—but inheritance. The emotional coolness of the adults finds its digital mirror.
Secrets We Keep is less concerned with solving its central disappearance than with illuminating the conditions that made it possible.
The Women Who Withhold
Danica Curcic’s Katarina is a masterclass in controlled froideur. She is as exacting as the home she inhabits. Around her, empathy falters. And yet in her silence, too, is a type of survival.
Per Fly’s Cinematic Continuity
This is classic Per Fly: restraint as storytelling, tension as emotional terrain. Following his acclaimed Inheritance, he returns with something colder, quieter, and arguably more exacting. Secrets We Keep is no pastiche of Nordic noir. It is its refinement.
Elegy for a Fractured Order
What remains after six episodes is not resolution, but reverberation. The drama withholds closure deliberately. What lingers is the sensation of having been quietly accused—and subtly changed.
