New documentary series about Joakim Lundell's childhood

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New documentary series about Joakim Lundell's childhood
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YouTuber and film producer Joakim Lundell gets to the bottom of his painful childhood in a new documentary series on TV4 play. "Joakim – an abandoned child" is the name of the series, according to TV4 "an attempt to understand what happened".

At the age of eight, Joakim Lundell was placed in a foster home and in the series, he visits both his foster parents and his biological father. Joakim Lundell's brother also participates and together with a psychologist, they read the social services' notes.

According to Catrin Magnusson, executive producer at TV4, the series is about a person who "constantly struggles to understand and come to terms with their broken childhood".

The series premieres on February 13.

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