Blink and you miss it: Noora and Eva are complaining about their phone batteries being bad. Story of their lives.



Culture: The Penetrators was just a working title on the bus group, since it takes a long time to settle on a theme for your actual bus. The release party is essentially a rebranding party, where the final concept, the theme of the bus and the name of the group gets revealed.



Subtext: For all the talk about how William and Chris and the rest of the Penetrators are fuckboys, the show does an excellent job of modelling consent. Every single time Noora indicates to William that she doesn’t want to be touched, doesn’t want to be kissed, he backs off.



And although the scene is played for laughs, with William unable to go to English class because he has a hard-on, it also shows that consent goes both ways. William respects Noora, so she also has to respect him and not touch him when he doesn’t want to.



Subtext: Vilde and Eva making out with each other at the previous party apparently wasn’t a one-time thing, and they’re both acknowledging that it will happen again, and that it would suck if either of them spread chlamydia to the other.



Subtext: Vilde knows about Noora and William at this point, so she’s just teasing Noora, she knows Noora doesn’t want to hook up with anyone else. The part about Julian being her type because he’s a bit feminine is of course a callback to earlier when Vilde thought Noora was a lesbian.



Blink and you miss it: Oh look, Vilde and Eva making out, just like they discussed.



Subtext: Vilde is trying to set up Noora with Julian, just like she said, and Noora has to play along and feign interest, but it’s obvious from her body language that she’s just being polite and doesn’t give a shit about what Julian has to say, or that he’s also lived in Madrid.



Culture: The song that plays at the end of the episode is Sønner av Norge, Sons of Norway, which was the de-facto national anthem between 1820 and 1864. The song should probably be taken ironically, these stupid brawling boys aren’t exactly making anyone proud, they’re the very opposite of what the song is about.

