The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.

Peter Eggers as John and Mattias Nordkvist as Per in Netflix's series 'Breakthrough' (2025).

Still from the show (Image via Netflix) In The Breakthrough, most of the characters are based on real-life individuals connected to the murders. The real-life victims of the incident were 8-year ...

While in that instance, police leveraged the genealogy website 23andme to solve its crime, Swedish police in The Breakthrough’s real-life case used DNA swabs from volunteers to establish a link ...

The Breakthrough is a fictionalized account of that investigation. It starts with the stabbing on an 8-year-old boy named Adnan (Marley Norstad) as he was walking to school. When a woman named ...

The Breakthrough follows a double murder that took 16 years to solve — much like a real-life incident that occurred in Sweden in 2004. Based on the 2021 novel of the same name, the Netflix ...

Although it is a fictional drama series, it is inspired by real-life events that were explored in the novel. In November 2022, scriptwriter Oskar Söderlund told Netflix that upon reading The ...