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Borgen Season 4

Name: Borgen Season 4 review: BollyAI verdict
Item: Borgen Season 4
Rating: 7.8
Author: BollyAI

Borgen Season 4 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.8/10. 8 episodes on DR1 from 13 February 2022.

WORTH-IT

BollyMeter7.8/10The Netflix-commissioned continuation scored 95% from 19 critics; structurally and tonally distinct from the DR1 trilogy, it was reviewed as a confident if slightly removed return to the characters.

Updated 9 June 2026

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 4, titled 'Borgen: Power and Glory,' was produced by SAM Productions for Netflix and premiered nine years after the original trilogy concluded. The setting shifted to Arctic geopolitics and a Greenlandic oil discovery, giving the show a new international scale. Critics scored it at 95% from 19 reviews, noting that creator Adam Price and Sidse Babett Knudsen had found a legitimate reason to return rather than simply exploiting the brand. The Netflix production brought different resources and pacing expectations - more cinematic, slightly less intimate than the DR1 series. It functioned as both a worthy continuation and a farewell to Birgitte Nyborg.

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Season Over Season

Netflix funding brings more cinematic scope while the DR1 seasons had greater political intimacy; a genuinely strong continuation rather than a nostalgia exercise.