Secrets We Keep: Behind the Glass

Rating: 5/6
What: Secrets We Keep
Who: Per Fly (director), Ingeborg Topsøe (screenwriter) & Claudia Saginario (producer)
Where: Netflix – premiere May 15, 2025
Reservatet af Per Fly - Secrets We Keep - Netflix
22-05-25   Gorm Bloch

In Per Fly’s chilling Nordic noir, Netflix peers into manicured lives, migrant shadows, and the fine line between guilt and complicity.

Two pristine families in Klampenborg’s gilded zone. Two teen boys armed with a drone and too much screen time. Two au pairs, one night. Ruby vanishes—and Netflix’s most-streamed global series ignites.

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Welcome to Denmark’s so-called Whisky Belt—where Teslas line the hedges and lives are manicured to the pixel. Inside the glass boxes of wealth, something curdles. The cracks aren’t just metaphor—they’re structural.

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Marie Bach Hansen’s Cecilie stuns—her eyes twitch like fault lines, her grace a costume stitched over ghosts.

Behind every stroller and grocery run, there’s a rhythm you might’ve missed: young Filipino women on bikes, on foot, working quietly, invisibly. The show doesn’t shout—it peers, gently but unforgivingly.

The Quiet Power of the Unnoticed

Secrets We Keep lets these women breathe on screen. It shows church potlucks, whispered sisterhood, late-night prayers. But it also flips the mirror back: this isn’t just their story—it’s yours too.

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Sunlight, silk blouses, and architectural zen can’t hold Cecilie together. One storm later, the façade splits. She sees too much, remembers more, and—crucially—refuses to look away.

Each night Cecilie runs the shore like she’s chasing (or outrunning) something. The soundtrack—a blend of sacred voices and sonic dread—makes the air feel electric.

Rasmus Hoffman isn’t just rich—he’s precision-tooled for menace. Lars Ranthe plays him cold and calculating. When he snarls “It ends here,” it sounds like prophecy.

Ice-Cool Katarina and Her Haunted House

Danica Curcic as Katarina gives full alabaster femme fatale. Her son, Viggo, is barely there—a haunted presence with a bond to au pair Angel that dares the audience to squirm.

Katarina, isnende godt spillet af Danica Curcic, Foto: Tine Harden / Netflix
Katarina, chillingly portrayed by Danica Curcic. Photo: Tine Harden / Netflix

Oscar and Viggo’s drone footage feels like surveillance horror. Their stash of voyeur clips inches toward incel territory. Oscar is the predator; Viggo, the reluctant accomplice. The thread? Toxic. Crucial. Maybe fatal.

Secrets We Keep weaponizes atmosphere—it’s slow-burn TV with bite, beauty, and a black mirror held way too close.

Yes, there’s a mystery. But genre’s not the point—vibe is. Sound design creeps. The story breathes suspicion. Every silence feels rigged. Every smile, a mask.

Viggo og Cecilie i Reservatet. Foto: Jasper Spanning / Netflix
Viggo and Cecilie in Secrets We Keep. Photo: Jasper Spanning / Netflix

Per Fly brings the frost from his iconic Inheritance and turns up the silence. It’s glacial. It’s exact. It dares you to breathe. Secrets We Keep doesn’t chase you—it waits.

The legacy is intact. The drama is blistering. And the truth? It’s hiding in plain sight.

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