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20. Fav Isak

you’ve picked one of the hardest ones for me aha. also im bout to explain my pov quite a bit because i cant sleep and might as well do something semi productive

okay, so my first instinct is to say the og isak. he was the right levels of bitchy, messy and depressive tendencies for me to relate completely. gifs of og isak were the first i ever saw of skam (like most of the tumblr base). I really enjoyed his friendship dynamics because something that I dont think we collectively talk about enough is that from the outside isak seems innocent and people trust him quite quickly. like eva trusted him in s1 with her and jonas, he got pchris to trust him with the fight stuff, and the way emma threw herself into their relationship, she evidently trusted him a lot. plus, jonas trusted that he’d sneak the weed out. and each time he did something (with the fight as the exception) to let down that trust. he told evas secret, hid the week in evas house, led emma on, etc. i just find that so interesting because he knows how to manipulate but in like…a passive way? he doest always do it intentionally but he still does it, and can get people to trust him with their shit even when he knows he isnt up to a level of caring that he would need to keep it all safe, if that makes sense? plus, isaks dialogue is one of my favourite portrayals in the skam-verse because he talks like the norwegian equivalent of half the lads i know whereas some versions feel a little stiff or forced with certain dialogue.

that being said, matteo florenzi exists. he definitely was not my favourite s1 version of isak. honestly, i think it was his early instagram that i found off putting, because it made it appear as though ‘likes weed’ was going to be the only explored personality trait. he didnt seem to be in s1 as much as isak was, even though he probably was. his presence just felt lesser. it wasnt until s2 when they seemed to decide to focus his personality a bit more to prep for s3. at partys he’d be engaged but still a little subdued and usually bypassing the dancing, and lets be honest the shirts won me over. the fact that we saw a continuation of the matteo/hanna dynamic in s2 also helped a lot i think, because it meant he was in s2 a lot more than isak was, and not just for some fight. then, s3 came a long and thats probably when he surpassed og for me. the fact that they had scenes of him simply existing just lying in bed just humanised him so much more, and while i thought there were some poorly written moments the majority of the dialogue he was given felt genuine. he was snarky, anxiety ridden, and had more quirks that i feel other remakes overlooked. like how michi is italian, so matteo is seen multiple times cooking italian food. he used the same distinct pens. he gets sensory overload when stressed. the scene from ‘neon butterflys’ really sold the character to me because i feel like its a scene ive lived through (hell, stuff like that is the only reason i saved for a year to get some decent noise cancelling headphones) and he felt so realistic. the only thing that couldve made his characterisation better for me, was if he’d addressed his clearly depressive ‘tendencies’ rather than the show kind of fading away from that(looking back, i get why they didnt focus on that in the final 2 eps but it was annoying at the time).

but yeah. that was a convoluted way to say matteo, with isak in a close second.

honourable mentions: lucas vhd (if hed gotten a season to develope he wouldve been on his way up their because he and isa have my favourite eva/isak dynamic), and shay dixon who needs a season and deserves so much

#thank you for the ask :)#ask #tailsbeth

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