Subtext: Isak just acknowledges it when Eva says she was friends with Ingrid for four years, which means that he knows all about what happened, unlike us viewers who have to wait a few episodes until it’s revealed.

Cinematography: Throughout the scene when Eva and Jonas are having a fight over text messages, Vilde’s and Noora’s conversation is just going on in the background, the camera is fixed on Eva and Jonas. Only when Eva starts paying attention to it does the camera suddenly show Noora and Vilde, signifying that her focus shifted, and so should ours. Because they’re talking about William’s dick size.

Subtext: We can’t hear any dialogue in the scene where Eva and Jonas make up again, and we don’t really need to. We’ve seen scenes like this a million times on TV, we know how they go. It also doesn’t matter what Jonas is saying, because at this point we know he’s lying.

Blink and you miss it: The note on the wall says “Add the Nissen Revue 2016 on Facebook”

Culture: Again a party, and again the most pressing concern is getting something to drink. William is 18, and having a boyfriend or girlfriend that can buy alcohol for you makes you popular with your friends, something Vilde desperately wants.

Subtext: Sana’s entire dialogue is actually about Vilde and William, but it applies perfectly to the current situation with Eva and Jonas. Eva isn’t actually defending William, she’s defending Jonas, and she is probably just repeating what he said when he persuaded her to make up with him again. Because Eva doesn’t have opinions of her own, in case you’ve accidentally forgotten this by now.

Blink and you miss it: Sana is dressed up as Vilde, she’s wearing the exact same hair bow that Vilde was wearing earlier in the episode. Noora is dressed up as the Log Lady from Twin Peaks, which is also her Instagram account name. Chris is dressed up as a bloody tampon, and her note says O.B. Fleur fordi du blør - Because you bleed.

Subtext: Jonas is unknowingly following the script Sana described earlier. He’s love-bombing Eva, but since she expected him to do this, it backfires.

Blink and you miss it: When Eva flees into the empty room, we can hear the party music faintly through the door: Gabrielle - Fem Fine Frøkner.



Lost in translation: The words for second-year and third-year students is andreklassing and tredjeklassing. The word for first-year students is førsteklassing, but Iben is actually saying førstis. By cutting the end of a word and adding the -is ending, you can make a Norwegian word sound more childish, so this is how the much more mature and grown-up older students keep the new students in place and maintain the social hierarchy. English has similar mechanisms, and a literal translation would be “firstie”, but this doesn’t exclusively mean a first-year student unlike førstis.



Calling Eva a freshman would keep the word school-related, and keep the derogatory term, but if Eva were to attend a US high school at her age, she would be a junior, a third-year student. US high school grade names simply don’t map very well to Norwegian high school, which is why I stayed away from those terms in this translation.



The last year of elementary school is 10th grade, but high school grades are never referred to as 11th or 12th grade or similar. High school is a clean break, so the numbering system restarts, and you start first grade again, despite being 16 years old, not 6. However, calling Eva a “first grader” would be completely wrong, since in English that can only mean a small child who has just started school.



Culture: Norway has one of the lowest rates of cannabis usage in Europe among 15-16-year-olds, only 7% have tried it once, and only 2% are using it regularly among that age group. Drug policy is also among the strictest in Europe, and the public opinion follows that. Eva’s reaction is therefore completely expected, which makes it understandable that Jonas wanted to hide this.

Alcohol usage is comparatively much higher, around 50% of 15-16-year-olds are drinking occasionally, and 25% are drinking regularly.