JoshL
1987
One of the things I love about this show (Occupied) is that the Norwegians speak Norwegian, the Russians speak Russian, and when they speak to each other – they speak in English.
jsnell
1988
I’m kind of surprised you felt that way about the second season. I’ve now watched three episodes of it, and the plot construction is atrocious. How often has the plot arranged for artificial urgency with them missing the bad guy by a matter of minutes, or even seconds? At least half a dozen. How often did the bad guy accidentally leave a convenient clue, or the police just have a hunch that turns out to be correct? Pretty much just as often.
The investigative chain ends up as totally ludicrous.
That trailer lost me at about the 00:00.05 mark, so I clicked Stop
I watched a couple of episodes of that, and meant to watch more but got distracted. It’s frustrating to me on a linguistic level because I feel that as an English and German speaker I should recognize more words of another Germanic language (albeit of a different branch), but those North Germanic vowels do my head in, as the Brits say.
Impostors looks interesting, saw a couple of episodes. It’s an uncharacteristically-upbeat grifter story. I think I will watch the rest.
We finished Bridgerton this week and enjoyed it for the Victorian era Gossip Girl that it is. Will be interesting to see what they do for season 2 tho.
My wife C can recognize a few words, and her background is Afrikaans, which is a variant of Dutch. So now if the subtitles seem a bit sparse, I ask her what else was said and she looks at me like I’m an idiot.
Nesrie
1994
I have started this after a few other recommended it. I am not far in and am unlikely to do more than a few episodes a night but wow, this is such a pleasant surprise!
RE: Sweet Home
I was on the fence after Ep 1 but I stuck with it and I’m glad I did. Just finished Ep 8 which starts with an awesome battle scene between our outmatched but intrepid humans vs a nigh-unkillable monster and the episode ends with a gripping duel between a favorite character and monster that was just epic.
Yeah, it’s cheesy in an old-school monster movie way, but definitely worth a watch.
Watched the first couple of episodes of the swearing show. Cage hams it up just like you’d expect, though he’s actually a fairly small part of the show. It’s mostly comedian talking heads and the occasional linguist. It’s actually more seriously lexicograpic than I expected, but very US/Hollywood centric and still pretty surface level. And it’s moderately funny. There’s some weird stuff, though. Like, they got Isaiah Whitlock for the “Shit” episode, and had a running gag with him doing an extended “shiiiiiiiiit” but never mentioned Clay Davis. Some rights issue with HBO?
I’ve watch the first 4 episodes, pretty good. I agree it is interesting that their is a lot of inherent ambivalence. I was wondering if they bring up Norway collaboration with Nazi in WWII, and they did. I’ve heard the word quisling twice this week, in reference to Ted Cruz and company.
My only complaint is the acting seems a bit wooden,not bad just not wide range of emotions.
In a less serious timeline, I’d use as example of the dangers of the Green New Deal.
Having finished all three seasons, I’d say that they don’t really sustain the quality throughout. The first season is quite good, the second less so, the third even less so. Some of the plot lines don’t really have anywhere sensible to go, but they have to do something with them, so they do. None of it is bad, but it does begin to disappoint after the promise of the first season.
The ambivalence is sustained throughout, though, which for me is the strongest feature. The freedom fighters are unsympathetic, even bad people. Some collaborators become part of the opposition, then do bad things to further the opposition — and, not coincidentally, their own political future.
I got a kick at seeing Ville Vortanen — who plays the hero Sorjonen in the great Finnish noir series Bordertown — as the Finnish prime minister in season 2, but ultimately they didn’t do much with his character.
I was sort of wondering if that’s typical of Norwegians in general. I’m sure I’ve seen a few over the years, but not enough to form an opinion.
Thanks for the heads up.
We just finished watching the French limited series Inhuman Resources, AKA as Derapages in French. The show begins with the plight of a near-sixty man, Alain Delambre, who is in his sixth year of unemployment after being laid off by the company he’d worked for for nearly 40 years. He is offered the chance to ‘try out’ for a job with an Evil Corporation; the tryout will be a simulated hostage situation designed to test the loyalty of company executives. Though the premise is slightly far-fetched, the show is excellent. The lead actor, Eric Cantona, gives a great performance as Delambre, and the plot twists several times over the course of the six episodes.
Definitely worth watching. In French with English subtitles.
Holy what now?
… Yeah, that’s him alright. OK, I’m interested.
I can’t believe he became an actor.
And apparently a really good one.
Lol, I had no idea he was a famous footballer.
You did not follow the trawler, I take it.
I don’t even know what it is. So…maybe?
