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Deliver Me

Deliver Me (I dina händer) is a 2024 Swedish crime drama limited series on Netflix about two fourteen-year-old best friends in Stockholm who are recruited by a local gang and drawn into a violent world they are too young to protect themselves from.¹ It is based on Malin Persson Giolito's best-selling 2022 novel of the same name, directed by Anna Zackrisson, and written by Alex Haridi as head writer together with Amanda Högberg.²^•³ All five episodes were released on Netflix on April 24, 2024.⁴

Key fact	Detail
Original title	I dina händer (Swedish); international title Deliver Me⁵
Premiere	April 24, 2024, all five episodes on Netflix⁴
Episode length	About 45 minutes each (BBFC timings run 38 to 49 minutes)⁵^•⁶
Source	Novel I dina händer (2022) by Malin Persson Giolito³
Director and writers	Anna Zackrisson; Alex Haridi (head writer) and Amanda Högberg²
Production	Asp Varhos; producers Frida Asp and Fatima Varhos²^•⁷
Ratings	TV-MA (US); 15 in the UK and Sweden-classified markets⁸

Spoilers

Plot

The series opens with a shooting: a fourteen-year-old boy lies face down in front of a swing set as his life drains from a head wound, and behind him stands his best friend with a warm gun in a trembling hand.⁹ Bilal "Billy" Ali (Yasir Hassan) and Douglas "Dogge" Arnfeldt (Olle Strand) are best friends who appear to come from different worlds. Dogge seems privileged, but his parents' addiction has led to neglect; Billy is financially disadvantaged but lives in a safe and loving home.¹

After being recruited by the ruthless criminal Mehdi (Solomon Njie), the boys become drug runners. When Billy later tries to cut ties with the gang, he finds himself trapped, and both friends come face to face with violence.¹ The story is set in Stockholm, in the fictional neighborhoods of Våringe and Rönnviken.¹ Netflix frames the series as a question of responsibility: when children commit horrible crimes, who bears it, and what does it do to a society that allows itself to view children as monsters?⁹

Cast

Yasir Hassan as Bilal "Billy" Ali, a teenager¹
Olle Strand as Douglas "Dogge" Arnfeldt, Billy's best friend¹
Yusra Warsama as Leila, Billy's mother¹
Ane Dahl Torp as Jill and Henrik Norlén as Teo, Dogge's parents¹
Ardalan Esmaili as Farid, a local police officer close to the boys¹
Mahmut Suvakci as Sudden, who owns the grocery store where the boys hang out¹
Solomon Njie as Mehdi, a gang leader¹
Abdirahman Mohamed as Tusse, Billy's younger brother¹

Hassan and Strand were newcomers in their first leading roles.²

Production

Netflix announced the adaptation in 2022, and principal photography began in Stockholm in February 2023, with the cast announced on February 16, 2023.²^•¹⁰ Filming on location around Stockholm was completed by early June 2023.¹⁰ The series was produced by Asp Varhos, with Frida Asp and Fatima Varhos as producers and Rebekka Karijord composing the score.²^•¹¹

The author's departure. In March 2024, before the premiere, Malin Persson Giolito removed her name from the production. She told Dagens Nyheter that the production had chosen not to depict how children drawn into gang crime are abandoned by both parents and society, and that she did not want the series marketed with her name.¹² She said she and the production had different creative visions for how the story should be told.¹³ Head writer Alex Haridi responded that any adaptation is an interpretation but that the core of the story remains, and director Anna Zackrisson said there had been no major conflicts, only differences in how one approaches the television medium.¹³

Reception and content advisories

The series carries mature ratings across markets: TV-MA in the United States, 15 in the United Kingdom, MA 15+ in Australia, and R21 in Singapore.⁸ The British Board of Film Classification classified all five episodes for streaming with content advice for domestic abuse, language, drug misuse, and violence.⁶ Common Sense Media describes it as a heavy look at young teens in Stockholm's drug scene, with graphic gunshot wounds, beatings, and a graphic shooting of a child shown and reshown in flashbacks; it rates the show 17+.¹⁴

Swedish critics were mixed to positive. The review aggregator Kritiker recorded an average of about 3.4 out of 5 across Swedish outlets, with Expressen and Kulturnyheterna at 4/5 and Sydsvenskan at 2/5.¹⁵ Filmtopp found the pacing slow for five episodes but wrote that the series grips its contemporary subject of minors in gang crime.¹⁶ On audience aggregators, the series holds an IMDb rating of 6.6 and a 69% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes.⁸^•¹⁷

Other works of the same name

The title Deliver Me also refers to unrelated works, including a Discovery Channel reality series about three obstetricians that premiered March 1, 2008 and ran four seasons, and a 2011 Swedish drama.¹⁸^•¹⁹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Drama and prestige series (individual series) › Crime and thriller series › Organized crime and heist series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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