About Detective Forst
Detective Forst is a 2024 Polish crime thriller for Netflix, adapted from the bestselling Forst novels by Remigiusz Mroz. The story follows Wiktor Forst, an unorthodox and rule-breaking detective working out of the Krakow and Zakopane region, as a string of unsettling deaths begins to surface in and around the Tatra mountains. Stark alpine landscapes, isolated villages and tourist resorts give the series a cold, wide-open atmosphere that contrasts with the close, human cost of the case.
Forst is talented but abrasive, the kind of investigator who bends procedure and burns through the patience of his superiors. As the killings appear to connect, a young journalist, Olga Szrebska, starts circling the same case from the outside, chasing leads of her own. Their parallel pursuits and uneasy overlap drive much of the tension, with Inspector Edmund Osica trying to keep the official investigation, and Forst himself, under some measure of control.
Across six episodes the series leans into mood and place as much as procedure, treating the crimes in restrained, non-graphic terms and keeping the focus on motive, obsession and the long shadows the mountains cast over the people who live among them. Built as a launch point for an ongoing franchise drawn from Mroz's books, it sets up Forst as a damaged, magnetic lead with more cases to come.
