This week's film and series - Farrell as Penguin

Colin Farrell is barely recognizable behind makeup and mask in "The Penguin", which premieres on Max. On SVT, Tiktok profile Fjortisper gets his own series. Here are this week's films and series.

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" (20/9, Max).

He is completely unrecognizable, but it is Colin Farrell who plays The Penguin, Batman's nemesis in the TV series – which picks up where the latest film "The Batman" ended. Gotham is flooded and in the power vacuum that has arisen after the death of mafia boss Carmine Falcone, Oswald "The Penguin" Cobb wants to build his own crime empire. But Falcone's daughter Sofia (Cristin Milioti) wants a say in the matter.

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" (26/9, Netflix).

Romantic comedy series about Joanna (Kristen Bell), who meets a cool guy (Adam Brody). But he is a rabbi and she absolutely does not believe in God. It becomes love with obstacles when religion stands in the way and prejudiced parents and friends interfere.

"Per and Bettan" (20/9, SVT).

Those who have been following Tiktok in recent years have not missed "Fjortisper". Now Isak Löb's comedic girl crush moves to SVT and lands in the middle of a love triangle where his big love Bettan (Emilia Rehnberg) is with another guy.

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" (19/9, Disney+).

The latest Marvel series is a kind of sequel to "Wandavision" and revolves around the witch Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) who is fighting to get her powers back. Aubrey Plaza plays one of her witch friends.

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Norway is liberated and now Vidkun Quisling, who ruled Norway for the Nazis, is to be executed. While waiting for the death penalty, priest Peder Olsen (Anders Danielsen Lie) is sent in to the prisoner to be his spiritual advisor. Can the priest figure out why Quisling sold out Norway? Erik Poppe has directed the Norwegian drama with Swedish Lisa Carlehed in a major supporting role.

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The new animated Transformers film focuses on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

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Director Agnieszka Holland's drama depicts how the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko cynically uses refugees from the Middle East as pawns in a larger game.

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Three daughters, including Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne, are forced to put their own conflicts aside to take care of their dying father together.

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