‘The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek’ Teaser Reaction
The game of horror returns to Netflix
A Familiar Case, A New Level of Terror
Netflix has unveiled the teaser and first look images for The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek—the highly anticipated follow-up series to The Chestnut Man— and is set to premiere globally on May 7, 2026.
The standalone six-part series reunites Mark Hess (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) and Naia Thulin (Danica Curcic) as the two detectives try to piece together twisted killings connected to a children’s rhyme.
The returning cast also includes Sofie Gråbøl and Katinka Lærke Petersen, adding to the series’ unsettling and emotionally charged world.
Based on the novel by Søren Sveistrup, the series follows a chilling investigation where a woman goes missing. When the police scour her digital footprint to retrace her steps prior to her disappearance, they realize she’s been stalked for an extended period. Also in their investigation, they discover that the perpetrator has been playing a sadistic game of hide and seek—sending her disturbing videos and images of an innocent nursery rhyme as the foreshadowing of the violence to come.
Carnage, Childhood, and Something More Sinister
From the moment the jagged violin begins to play, depicting a body deceased inside a giant birds nest, and a series of autopsy photos, this teaser makes it plain what The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek will be about: carnage.
While this series is a standalone, it centers the characters we met in Chestnut Man (2021), bringing back Mark and Naia to solve yet another brutal murder. Based on the trailer, this limited series will challenge the detectives in a completely new way—reopening old feelings of failure as this current case may be connected to a cold case.
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Final Thoughts
The teaser feels mysterious, ominous, and down right horrific.
With the use of a child’s game being the sadistic method in which the killer preyed upon his victim, detectives Mark and Naia must wonder who will he “play” with next.
All six episodes of The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek premieres Thursday, May 7, only on Netflix. Check out the teaser below.