Blink and you miss it: We get to see Thea, Jonas’ sister. Remember what she looks like, we’ll see her again later.



Subtext: Yes, the problem with telling her mom that Jonas is her boyfriend is a long story, one which takes about a whole season to tell.



Subtext: Vilde thinks she knows Sara and Ingrid really well, but doesn’t know that Eva knows them much better.



Culture: Noora doesn’t use the word “prude”. She says konfleder, which means a leader at a confirmation camp. Despite being a pretty atheist country, many Norwegians get baptized as babies, and get confirmed as teenagers, simply because of tradition. To get confirmed, you usually attend a confirmation camp for a week or two, but since most teenagers aren’t there because of their own religious conviction, and instead are there because it’s something you suffer through to get presents from your family, most confirmands don’t view the Christian camp leaders as positive role models, but as boring, sex-negative killjoys. And therefore a konfleder means a boring prudish person.



Subtext: It’s 12:35am on a Tuesday evening, and Eva’s mom is still up working. This is just more evidence that not only does Eva’s mom travel a lot, but the time she’s at home, she spends it working as well, adding to the distance between Eva and her mom.



Subtext: Eva’s mom still doesn’t know about the fallout with Ingrid, so she thinks she’s asking an innocent question, bonding with her daughter, but she’s actually threatening to expose Eva’s shame.



Subtext: Eva has obviously talked to Noora about her issues with Jonas, but she hasn’t told Jonas that she’s told Noora, which is why she’s trying to cover up Noora’s incredible directness.



Blink and you miss it: Noora has had it with the wacky school doctor, and executes a perfect eye-roll.



Culture: Norway has comprehensive sex education, so when the girls go to the school doctor, she decides to have an impromptu refresher course about condom use with them. Although the scene is played for comic relief, and Dr Skrulle is pretty out there, it’s not an implausible scenario.



Culture: Vilde grabbed a bunch of free condoms from the doctor’s. Condom packets in Scandinavia are rectangular, not square.



Subtext: Vilde assumes that Noora hasn’t had sex, but Noora chooses not to say anything about it, to keep everyone assuming that she’s a virgin, since this is not the time for her to talk about her experiences. It’s not her season, yet.



Subtext: Vilde can’t show up at home drunk. Everyone assumes it’s because her parents are strict, but the real reason will be revealed later.

