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Helsinki Syndrome (Finnish: Helsinki-syndrooma) is a Finnish television crime and drama series that began broadcasting on 2 September 2022 on Yle TV1. It was created by Miikko Oikkonen, who co-wrote the screenplay with Olli Suitiala, Tuomas Hakola, and Olli Koivula. The series was directed by Juuso Syrjä, Lenka Hellstedt, and Marko Mäkilaakso.

The first season of eight episodes is set in the early 2020s and begins in a newspaper office where electrician Elias (played by Peter Franzén) is holding journalist Hanna (Oona Airola) and her colleagues hostage while negotiator Jarmo (Taneli Mäkelä) attempts to resolve the situation. Elias is a victim of the 1990s Finnish banking crisis and wants the journalists to determine who is responsible for the predicament of long-term debtors like himself.

A second season of six episodes began broadcasting on 21 November 2024. Franzén, Mäkelä and Airola reprise their roles, with the action set two months later. Elias is now a fugitive, Jarmo is hunting him, and Hanna is investigating an illegal government directive to courts in the mid-1990s to absolve banks for causing long-term debt.

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