Putting their arguments across … The Playlist Photograph: Netflix An entire team was responsible for its success and they each get to put their argument across. An episode about the lawyer who laid the groundwork for compromise with record labels. There is an episode about the app’s chief coder, who battled to strive for a perfection that had never existed before. Episode two is about a music executive who, terrified by filesharing’s gutting of the industry he loves, relents and gets into bed with Spotify. The Playlist has six episodes, all told from the perspective of someone integral to Spotify’s success. Immediately we have a much more interesting show. Then, in its dying gasp, another character turns to the camera and says “What the hell? That’s not how it happened.” If this was a US show, you sense that this would be the entire series. We see him take this frustration and use it to create Spotify, despite widespread obstruction from the music industry, climaxing with a heartrending sequence of him and his programmers finally telling the world about his magical toy that lets you listen to any song for free. When we meet him, he is trapped in a job he is too good for, hanging out with his mother and being told he is too undereducated for a job at Google.

Episode one, for instance, is all about Ek, played with tremendous stroppiness by Fortitude’s Edvin Endre.

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