Oslo: which cafes to go to have good coffee? Where to go for a jog? Best fleamarkets for a person who likes to just wander and look at interesting things? Best restaurants for a vegetarian/vegan?
Please recommend Norwegian tv shows and movies to me. Imma trying to learn Norwegian and watching a show/film is one of the easiest ways (at least for me) to learn. The topic of the serie is not so important but I guess comedy and drama are the genres that attract me the most. Surely would be greit if the show/film is in some platform and available to streaming, but it’s interesting to hear recommendations even though I couldn’t watch recommended things. Here you have some recommendations from me as well.
What I’ve watched:
- Skam (the root guilty for all of this, ofc)
- Hem til jul (loved this!)
- Makta (brilliant!)
- Rådebank (naah)
- Krypto kings (naah)
- Julstormen (very good)
- Oljefondet (funny)
- Evy & alltid (tried butgave up in the first episode)
- Verldens verste menniske (a good movie)
- En affær (a bit weird but loved Tarjei Sandvik Moe)
Remember when in S3E1 Eskild, Isak and Linn are FaceTiming with Noora and Eskild mentions that Noora smells like lovely lavender? Later in S3E5 Eskild gives Isak a room freshener that has lavender smell. In their following discussion about being a homosexual Isak lists things he thinks are a part of Eskild’s homopakke and one thing is talking about a lavender smell.
Coincidence or a brilliant reminder of Julie Andem’s attention to detail, again?
In 1950 in USA there was a moral panic about homosexuals and it was called The Lavender Scare. Read more in Wikipedia:
I know Julie Andem is a genious but it still strikes me every time I find more little details inside Skam. How was she able to add so much meaningfulness and intertextual references to the 20 minute episodes without making them bloated with content?
Brilliant.
Link to the Skam manuscript, the famous dialogue between Isak and Eskild can be found on the page 7:
I found about The Lavender Scare while watching Fellow travelers and reading about Mccarthism. Who dares to say that entertainment doesn’t educate?
A serie done by NRK (Norwegian broadcasting company), won a shitton of Gullruten (Norwegian tv serie awards) prices, the serie had like most watchers ever of any NRK serie. These facts gets your hopes and expectations up, right?
But no, Rådebank just doesn’t work for me, at all. Sure, the actors are good and cute but still no. Anyone else watched this? Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the appeal of the serie?
Or has Skam just destroyed tv for me?
(In Finland can be watched in Areena, dunno if it is streamed elsewhere. In NRK ofc. )
Skam peeps who know Norwegian, can you please tell me a couple of things:
In Bloopers of S3 Henrik Holm is auditioning. Julie Andem asks what he has been doing after graduating and he says working. Julie then asks him to elaborate or something, but what does she literally ask?
In S3E7 when Isak come out to Magnus and Mahdi and they make plans to have vors at Isak’s, Mahdi says something like ’sba’. What does he say? Is it Norwegian or some teen lingo or what?
Bonus question that has (prolly) nothing to do with language: Why S4 Bloopers is not available anywhere? Or it is in NRK’s site but they have already caught that I use VPN to mask my location so I can’t watch it there. There are some reaction versions in Youtube but not the whole Blooper like the other seasons.
Excuse me, I have been hovering around SKAMily fandom now (checks clock) 5 months and still this is the first time I see these images of Henrik Holm with long hair and a piercing?! There has to be a fault in algoritms somehow.