Faithless

An aging filmmaker returns to a relationship that has shadowed his life, meeting again with the woman who once loved his closest friend. The series moves between past and present, showing younger and older versions of the characters as old choices and private conversations are reexamined. Rather than building to a single revelation, episodes focus on memory's slipperiness, how stories we tell ourselves change with time, and the moral traces left behind by desire and betrayal. The narrative keeps its secrets, letting the characters' confessions and silences reveal shifting loyalties and the cost of artistic life without resolving every tension.

Released in 2025, Faithless was created by Tomas Alfredson and Sara Johnsen, adapting material credited to Ingmar Bergman for a contemporary television format. The ensemble includes Frida Gustavsson and Lena Endre as Marianne, with Gustav Lindh and Jesper Christensen as David in younger and older portrayals.

As of its initial release, Faithless hadn't collected major industry awards. Critical attention focused on the performances rather than festival prizes, with particular notice given to the actors who play the characters across time.

Faithless prompted conversations about how filmmakers mine personal history for art, and it reopened interest in Bergman's original work among younger viewers. Certain scenes and lines about memory and ownership of stories were widely shared online, and the show's mood and pacing were often compared to slow, atmospheric European drama.

Critical reception has been mixed to favorable, reflected in a modest vote average of 6.25 out of 10. Reviewers tended to praise the acting and the show's interrogation of memory, guilt, and aging, while some found the pacing deliberate and the unresolved moral questions frustrating. Overall it reads as an intimate, mature drama asking whether personal truth survives the retelling.