A Swedish middle manager's metamorphosis — Kafka meets IKEA in three glorious hours.
Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestHolger's new life is falling into place. But is his family really capable of understanding?
A different family comedy in three parts with the man in the center. A beautiful and instructive story about a small, fat, middle-aged agency manager with a high salary. We get to follow the bullied and exploited Holger in his difficult struggle from pupa to fly-ready butterfly.
Acting
Anders Nyström's physically committed everyman breakdown.
Writing
Molin's surgical dissection of Swedish workplace culture.
Creator
Lars Molin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lars Molin was Sweden's master of 'folkhemmet' dark comedy, using state television to eviscerate the very welfare bureaucracy that funded him. Zoombie aired on SVT when Swedish workplace dramas were dominated by noble workers, not pathetic managers.
The title 'Zoombie' deliberately evokes both zombie (the living dead of office life) and zoom (speed/energy Holger lacks). Molin confirmed this double meaning in a 1987 interview, though Swedish critics largely missed it initially.
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