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Bill Skarsgård: 'I had no plan for when I would work again'

The Swedish star wasn’t sure if he was right for the part in Gus Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire. Turns out, it was the risk he needed to come back from his career break

Evening Standard

Bank robber with ‘machine gun’ takes hostages for 6 days. Their bond leads to the birth of a new psychological term

Six days in a vault and they fell for their kidnappers.

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Is Stockholm Syndrome even real? The bizarre story behind a problematic diagnosis

Few realize that ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is a term that was foisted on a woman by a male psychiatrist who had never met her after a Swedish bank heist worthy of a movie. Fifty years after the hostage situation that gave the syndrome its name, Sheila Flynn reports on how minds…

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What is Stockholm syndrome? It all started with a bank robbery 50 years ago

This week marks 50 years since a failed bank robbery that gave rise to Stockholm syndrome, a term used to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors

The Independent UK

Is Stockholm Syndrome even real? The bizarre story behind a problematic diagnosis

The Independent UK

TV series show: Disney+ mini series 'Oussekine' looks at France's real-life George Floyd

Our TV critic Dheepthika Laurent looks at a new series from Disney+ that brings police brutality and racism in 1980s France to the small screen. Also, we look at Netflix's weird, controversial but entertaining docu-fiction about notorious Swedish gangster Clark Olofsson, who gave rise to the term "Stockholm syndrome". Apple…

France 24

The week in TV: The Essex Serpent; the Baftas; Fergal Keane: Living With PTSD; Clark

Tom Hiddleston fails to smoulder in Apple’s Sarah Perry adaptation; no fists fly at the Baftas; and Bill Skarsgård sizzles as Sweden’s favourite gangster

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Infamous bank robbery that gave Stockholm Syndrome its name to be new Netflix series

The show explores the biography of one of the two hostage takers - Swedish gangster Clark Oloffson and the robbery gave rise to the term 'Stockholm Syndrome' after the group fell for their captors

Daily Mirror

The Pentaverate to Tehran: the seven best shows to stream this week

He’s been noticeably absent for a decade, but Mike Myers is back with eight new characters in an age ripe for parody. Plus, Glenn Close joins the Israeli thriller

The Guardian - UK

What’s coming to Netflix in January? The new TV series and films to watch from Dog Gone to You People

We round up the streaming service’s best upcoming TV and films

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