![]() ![]() Kevin's best friend is Benji: a closeted gay boy whose hockey skills are good enough to go pro. Maya, the 15-year-old daughter of the Beartown hockey club manager, spends her time playing guitar, hanging out with her BFF, Ana, and crushing on Kevin: the 17-year-old star of Beartown's junior hockey team. Set in the eponymous small town, called Björnstad in the original Swedish, the novel centers on six teenagers whose lives are all intimately connected to the local hockey rink. "Late one evening toward the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead, and pulled the trigger." So begins Fredrik Backman's 2016 bestseller, Beartown. With the 2020 series finally landing on this side of the Atlantic, now is the perfect time to revisit the Beartown book ending, which looks 10 years into the main characters' future. ![]() The series stars Miriam Ingrid ( Get Ready with Me) as Maya, a teenager who is raped by an older boy - the star athlete of the local hockey club her father manages. 22, HBO Nordic's Beartown brings Fredrik Backman's bestselling novel of the same name to the small screen. ![]()
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