Beforeigners: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Beforeigners follows a new phenomenon that starts happening all over the world. Powerful flashes of light occur in the ocean, and people from the past appear. They come from three separate time periods: The Stone Age, The Viking era and late 19th Century. No one understands how this is possible, and the people from the past, called "beforeigners", have no memory of what's transpired. Only one thing is certain: they keep coming and there is no way back.

A couple of years later, Alfhildr, who comes from the Viking Age, is teamed up with burned-out police officer Lars Haaland as part of the police department's integration scheme. While investigating the murder of a beforeigner, they begin to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.

Series details

• Title: Beforeigners
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Norwegian
• Genres: Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 2019-08-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 2022-01-02
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: HBO Max
• Typical episode runtime: 47 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 37671
• IMDb ID: tt8332130
• TVDB ID: 366854

Cast and credited roles

• Nicolai Cleve Broch — Lars Haaland
• Krista Kosonen — Alfhildr Enginnsdottir

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-08-21; final listed air date 2019-09-11; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2021-12-05; final listed air date 2022-01-02; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Beforeigners on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.