Culture: Isak keeps re-writing his text message to Even, and he keeps the “Thanks for yesterday” part. Again, this is a super common Scandinavian politeness phrase, and it means that it doesn’t matter if Sonja accidentally reads the message or not, she wouldn’t suspect that anything is up between Isak and Even. But since both of them know that they almost kissed at the party, what Isak is actually saying is that he liked it, he wanted it, he wishes they hadn’t been interrupted by Noora.



Subtext: Yet again a conversation that is not about the main drama, but 100% applies to it. Isak isn’t jealous of all the attention Noora is getting from Eskild, but he is jealous of Sonja.



Subtext: And it continues, Eskild is talking about William, but it applies to Isak. If Even loves him, he’ll chose him over Sonja.

Subtext: Isak can’t open The Locker™, because he has a hard time coming out and opening up. Even just punches it open, because he doesn’t care if anyone knows that he’s into guys, and because he will eventually force open Isak’s closet.



Subtext: When Jonas appears, Isak immediately closes his locker again, because he’s not ready to talk to Jonas just yet. He also hurts himself on the locker, because bottling everything up also hurts.



Subtext: Although Mom’s bible rants seem nonsensical, this piece ends with “And in sin my mother conceived me”, which could be seen as a “born this way”-argument, which is the exact opposite of what Sana is saying.



Subtext: They’re going through sexual reproduction for their biology class, and although Isak says it “sounds easy”, it’s the exact opposite case for him, he’s not interested in sharing his haploid gametes to form a zygote…

Culture: Again we get ages expressed as birthyears. Everyone in second year at school is born in ‘99 like Isak, which means that a third-year like Even should have been born in ‘98. But since he’s born in ‘97, like Sonja, he should have graduated, like Sonja, so this is the first time Isak catches on that something’s happened to make Even have to redo a year, since this is extremely uncommon.



Culture: The song playing during the pool kiss is Kissing You by Des’ree, which is also used in Baz Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet when Romeo and Juliet kiss each other for the first time in the elevator at the party.



Subtext: Up until now, Isak has never really initiated anything with Even, he’s just been tagging along, letting Even take the lead. But this time, he kisses Even, he takes the initiative, he makes his move and shows that yes, this is something he actually wants.



Culture: The song playing during the end credits is KoKo by Slick Posh, and the lyrics go:

“I am loco in my head,

Am clean crazy in my head,

The psychologist says I’m fucked up”

