Norwegian tv and film have been again consumed in the Giraffe house.
Let’s start with Danish one because why not. Salsa is a Danish show about two sisters (who are played by real sisters!) and apparently seasons 1 and 2 were very well received by viewers and critics. In true Skam sense I watched only season 3 because TSM was in it and maybe that is why I really didn’t get the idea, at all. Yeah, I know that life is hard and especially it is hard when you are a young adult, but does it really have to be that hard? Like I felt that the protagonists made their life even more hard that it needed to be.
Also some plot events were a bit weird. I don’t need everything explained to me like in American tv, but why to bring up something and use time for it and then it has no meaning after that? Don’t wanna spoil anything but sex related performance challenge.
But all in all it was funny to watch a Danish show with Danish subtitles. Crazy that the written language is almost like Norwegian, but I couldn’t undertand almost anything of the dialogue.
Let’s get back to Norway. I really like Legevakten. I am an ex healthcare professional and I know that patients and scenes in the show are carefully selected and the work is not so nice and dandy all the time. But the show still makes me happy. Especially many child patients are just so lovely (and I don’t even like kids usually). The crew members in Legevakten are really adorable as well.
Etter Benjamin is really well done, true NRK quality. Can’t binge it since it makes me so sad but I enjoy one episode once a while. Good actors and really important subject. Wish it wasn’t based on true events but this is the world we live in.
This serie reminds me how Finland (or at least Nokia) conquered the world for a while. Torille!
Oslo - København interested me since as a Finn I have the cruise culture in my DNA. And seems like things in Danskebåten are really simular to our Ruotsinlaivat or Tallinn ferries. Surely I have never travelled in a suite kind of cabin but otherwise. Good actors and an interesting subjectin the film, but it left me a bit empty. Film felt also a bit streched: it could have easily been 20 minutes shorter. Too many long shots of the ferry floating away.
Ragnarok didn’t interest me at all at first because fantasy/action/whatever the genre is not my thing, but when I was looking for a new Norwegian show I could watch with spouse I gave it a go and no surprise, the beginning of the pilot with M83 and the amazing scenery and David Stakston did it for me. I enjoyed the show a lot. The ending was not a surprise for me and I have my own interpretation of it. Really nice acting by all cast and nice production. Would wanna visit Odda.
I have also watched a bit Rykter, VGS, Lykkeland but nothing to say about those.
Recommendations are always welcome!
