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Ville Virtanen

“Bordertown: Season Two” continues another solid crime drama from the Scandinavian countries. It’s set in a Finnish town near the Russian border, so the subject crimes frequently come with complications from the other side of that line. Our hero is Kari Sorjonen (Ville Virtanen), a brilliant, intriguingly quirky police detective who moved there from Helsinki, seeking relative peace, allowing more time with his wife Paulina (Matleena Kuusniemi), and teen daughter Janina (Olivia Ainali). Naturally, it doesn’t work out that way, or we’d just have a pastoral travelogue, instead of a suspenseful procedural series.

Kari has a number of hand movements that help him retain and recall memories in his vaguely autistic mind. Like many such characters, his intense focus on each new crime comes at a cost, as his family feels shunted to the side, aggravated by his inability to remain engaged in the moment...

Hartbeat, Kevin Hart’s entertainment company, has hired two new senior executives.

Janina Lundy, former head of emerging audience development and marketing for Prime Video and Amazon Studios, will serve as Hartbeat’s executive vp, head of marketing and brand strategy. Adam Puchalsky, former global head of content and brand experiences at Wavemaker, will serve as executive vp, global head of Pulse, the company’s branded entertainment studio and marketing consultancy.

Before working for Amazon, Lundy worked at BET Networks, where she ran marketing campaigns, supervised partnerships and oversaw operations, marketing and business strategy for BET+. She will now be responsible for marketing Hartbeat’s brands, including Hartbeat, Laugh Out Loud and Women Write Now, as well as growing brand strategy. Puchalsky will oversee Pulse’s partnerships and brand offerings, which include creative campaign collaboration, development and execution with clients such as Sam’s Club and AT&T.

The two hires come as Hartbeat,...