Netflix's new five-episode Swedish crime drama "Blood Sacrifice", created by George Kay (known for "Lupin" and "Hijack"), is reviewed as a sharp and engaging thriller that goes beyond a standard murder mystery to examine the psychological toll of police work on officers and their families. The series also explores the dysfunction within police bureaucracy, making it more than a conventional whodunit.

The story opens in Stockholm when police officers responding to a knife-attack emergency call are later found beheaded. Homicide detective Thomas Berg is put in charge of the investigation by Police Chief Lucas Lind but told to keep it quiet, so he enlists new detective Natalie Eklund and secretly turns to his estranged father, Alfred, a once-respected detective forced out over alcoholism and evidence tampering. When a second attack claims two more officers a week later, father and son realise the killer is deliberately targeting police, and the series increasingly centres on their fractured relationship alongside the murder investigation.