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Fortitude: episode by episode

A weekly review of the Arctic-set Sky Atlantic drama
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    Fortitude recap: season one, episode 11 – wasps, jam and an uncertain ending

    The Sky drama reached the end of its first season a long way from where it started – and left fresh avenues open for season two
  • Richard Dormer as Dan Anderssen in the grisly episode 1o of Fortitude.

    Fortitude recap: season one, episode 10 – the bears and the bees

    One cast member was fed to the bears, while the bees were swarming from someone’s mouth as this penultimate episode ramped up the body horror
  • Henry and Morton ... true confessions.

    Fortitude recap: season one, episode nine – part Coen brothers, part Beckett

    This blackly comic episode finally gave us a sense that we might be in for a big, satisfying ending
  • Michael Gambon as Henry.

    Fortitude recap: season one, episode eight – is it science, or supernatural?

    This week’s typically gristly events seem put a slightly different spin on what’s going on – and, meanwhile, what’s up with Henry?
  • Shirley Allerdyce.

    Fortitude recap: season one, episode seven – ice-cream aisle of the supermarket

    A bit calmer this week, after last week’s fork incident, but most people in Fortitude are becoming edgy and some are getting mutinous. Things may be about to get worse
  • Stanley Tucci as Morton.

    Fortitude: season one, episode six recap: leaving nothing to the imagination

    We entered weird, dark, and extremely violent territory this week. Did you have the stomach for it?
  • Darren Boyd as Markus Huseklepp in Fortitude.

    Fortitude recap: season one, episode five – living up to expectations

    The Arctic mining town murder mystery cranks up the weirdness as we inch towards an explanation of how Stoddart came to meet his maker
  • Stanley Tucci as DCI Morton; in Fortitude.

    Fortitude recap: season one, episode four – bloodied pyjamas and bear attacks

    This Arctic mining town murder mystery is starting to reveal its charms; that’s if you call a subplot of fattening up your partner with minke whale charming
  • Stanley Tucci as Morton.

    Fortitude recap: series one, episode three – at last, the plot sparks into life

    There’s still plenty of glowering and general gloom, but now that we have a few suspects in our sights, things are starting to look a bit more interesting
  • Stop, freeze! Aaron McCusker and Nicholas Pinnock in Fortitude.

    Fortitude recap: series one, episode two – snow, secrets and carryings on

    Inspector Morton starts his painstaking investigation of the remote Arctic mining town. It’s slow and strange, with more than a hint of a chilly swingers’ retreat
  • Christopher Eccleston as Professor Stoddart.

    Fortitude recap: series one, episode one – secrets, lies and murder suspects

    Gwilym Mumford: A grisly killing kicks off this crime drama, but this strange Arctic mining town is blanketed in winter dark and suffused with other, strange mysteries
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