ARVINGERNE

Arvingerne ("the Inheritors") is a new Danish 10-part TV series, which has just finished this evening. Judging by the viewing figures, it has been very successful, and looks set to be both repeated and exported to other countries.

The artist matriarch of a complicated (four children by three different men) and dysfunctional family dies, and the key question becomes, in a situation where her will is not particularly clear, who gets the house where she lived and produced her work? As you might expect, there are lots of plot twists and turns. But as with the Killing and Borgen, it is very well scripted and acted. Worth watching.

The legal profession has said that since the series started at the beginning of January, the number of enquiries about how to write a will has shot up. If nothing else, the series will have demonstrated the folly of not doing so.

Walter Blotscher