Now working as the host of a call-in radio show about the paranormal, Astrid remembers vividly how frightened and reluctant to go on the bus Ida seemed that day. Astrid (Danica Curcic) is the younger sister of Ida (Karoline Hamm), one of the disappeared. Twenty-one years later, no trace of the missing students has ever been found. The bus was later discovered on a country road with only the driver and three students inside the rest of the class was gone. In 1999, 21 graduating seniors went off on a party bus, swigging and yelling and flirting. The show doesn't shed any light on the origins of those "The Love Boat"-esque caps (actually a long Nordic student tradition), but it's a head trip, all right. "Equinox" (2020) is a six-episode Netflix original series produced in Denmark, directed by Søren Balle and Mads Matthiesen and based on the podcast "Equinox 1985," created by Tea Lindeburg. (Oral exams on philosophy! Very drunk kids in nautical-looking caps boarding a party bus, accompanied by their equally drunk teachers!) She informed me there was a whole mystery series pivoting on just such graduation festivities gone awry. Recently, I was telling a friend about the interesting Danish high school graduation customs documented in 2021 Oscar winner Another Round. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming - and not always easy to sort through. RITES OF SPRING A desolate island may hold the key to a 21-year-old mystery in this Danish series.
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