Saga Norén

Saga Norén is the main character of Danish-Swedish Scandinoir television series The Bridge (Swedish: Bron, Danish: Broen).

Character creation
The character was initially not written as autistic, rather, the writers started from the idea of a female detective with absolutely no social skills as a counterpart to the more sociable male lead, Martin, as a way to subvert the traditional dreary male lead in detective series

Autism
Autism is not mentioned within the series itself, however actress Sofia Helin does remark that she considers Saga to have Asperger's