Fake it till you make it? These broke millennials fake it till they break it.
40 minSeason 3 • Episode 9
LatestA successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting.
Acting
Vatanen and Kuustonen's exquisite mutual desperation
Writing
Lies so layered they need spreadsheets
Direction
Airaksinen mines humiliation for poetry
Creator
Teppo Airaksinen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The term 'downshifting' was co-opted from a 1980s anti-consumerist movement—here weaponized as social camouflage for failure.
Creator Teppo Airaksinen based Tommi and Satu's spiral on real Finnish couples who maintained luxury façades through secret debt; the show's dark humor made it controversial among older viewers who found it 'too real.'
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