Cinematography: Oh look, Sana in a doorway, again.



Culture: Sana is eating a sandwich with brunost, which literally means “brown cheese”. Although it’s made with milk and whey, it’s technically not cheese, and it gets its brown colour and taste from caramelized sugars in the milk.



Culture: This episode takes place in mid-April, just before russetiden starts. If you are a bus group, you are done with your bus after russetiden, but that’s also when everyone graduates, leaves high-school, and goes away, and you won’t hang around second-year students who want to buy a bus any longer. Therefore, you want to sell your bus beforehand, so that you don’t have to stress about getting it sold during russetiden, when you’re busy partying, or the few weeks after, which might be too short of a time to find a buyer. And since the bus is probably the biggest piece of your group’s budget, knowing that you’re gonna get it sold and for how much, allows you to figure out how much money you’ve got left for partying, gas, and a driver, etc.



On the flipside, groups buying a bus won’t know exactly how trashed the bus is going to get after all the partying, so that’s a risk. But since there is competition about getting the cooler buses and continuing traditions or whatever, there are plenty of groups who are willing to take that risk, which is why Vilde is saying that all the buses are being sold now.



Blink and you miss it: Noora can’t believe how naïve Vilde is, while Sana is just amused by the whole situation.



Lost in translation: Vilde says “The stars are shining” in Swedish for some reason. No clue what she’s referencing. Help me out here, guys.



Subtext: Sana was ogling pictures of Yousef, and happened to be looking at one with both Yousef and Mikael when Isak drops by. Isak, on the other hand, was completely uninterested in Yousef, because he recognized Mikael from before as an old friend of Even’s, which is why he is talking about the picture as if it only had one guy in it.

Culture: Sana has done her homework and asks actual relevant questions that are important when buying a bus. She also inspects the tires and mirrors and cargo space, while the rest of the girls are just letting themselves be wowed by the flashy interior.



Subtext: Sara is being racist as fuck, she’s stressing that her bus group is “normal” and “Norwegian”, as opposed to Sana’s group which she tries to paint as a bad group, an abnormal and foreign group, because it’s unusual for Muslim girls to participate in russ.

