Good point. I will get the first cart out to the regions.
Skam is genuinely good. I've only seen series 3, which was the one when it became huge in Norway and 'broke out' internationally, but I believe that all of it is good. Certainly what I have seen is well written, and the director gets strong performances out of a mixed professional and amateur cast who actually feel like teenagers. I was mostly attracted by it being good Norwegian drama, but it is genuinely interesting I think in aiming to do a show about teenagers that feels real and a bit "inform, educate, entertain" in dealing with some serious issues. Its major innovation is one that you don't get watching retrospectively with English subtitles, which is that it was originally broadcast "in real time" and with character social media, so the audience followed through the week, and then the whole episode was shown. Leading to the article that made me think "I have to look at this", about an Oslo city council* meeting when the chair asked would everyone please put down their phones and engage with the budget, to get the response that no, they wouldn't, because they were on tenterhooks for the anticipated Skam update.
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Skam is genuinely good. I've only seen series 3, which was the one when it became huge in Norway and 'broke out' internationally, but I believe that all of it is good. Certainly what I have seen is well written, and the director gets strong performances out of a mixed professional and amateur cast who actually feel like teenagers. I was mostly attracted by it being good Norwegian drama, but it is genuinely interesting I think in aiming to do a show about teenagers that feels real and a bit "inform, educate, entertain" in dealing with some serious issues. Its major innovation is one that you don't get watching retrospectively with English subtitles, which is that it was originally broadcast "in real time" and with character social media, so the audience followed through the week, and then the whole episode was shown. Leading to the article that made me think "I have to look at this", about an Oslo city council* meeting when the chair asked would everyone please put down their phones and engage with the budget, to get the response that no, they wouldn't, because they were on tenterhooks for the anticipated Skam update.
*I think. Possibly it was parliament.