Culture: Since Norwegian high schools have open enrollment, they have to market themselves to potential students, so of course a lot of them have promo videos on YouTube. The other videos in the playlist contain promo videos for the schools Nydalen, Elvebakken, and Bjerke.



Culture: The next social media drop after this clip was a chat between Isak and Eva where Isak describes what kind of girl Eva has to transform herself into in order to fit the stereotypes of a bunch of other Oslo high schools; Katta, Foss, Handels, and Elvebakken. You can find the chat and a translation here: https://skam1texts.tumblr.com/post/154519870343/isak-imagine-eva-if-you-transfer-then-youll



Culture: ung.no is a government-run public service information website aimed at Norwegians between the ages of 13 and 20. It contains articles and information about pretty much everything Norwegian teenagers want to know and need to know, rights, responsibilities, sex, alcohol, drugs, school, and your first jobs. That Eva ends up at that website after googling her question is of course not a coincidence, NRK wants to help spread awareness of ung.no.



Blink and you miss it: The theme of the week on ung.no is about eating disorders.



Blink and you miss it: Isak’s Skype avatar is of course a stupid cat meme.



Blink and you miss it: David Alexander Sjøholt is sparring with a girl in the schoolyard.



Blink and you miss it: Eva carries the period blood threat letter in a plastic bag.



Subtext: SKAM is exceptionally good at taking teenage problems and drama seriously, but at the same time, Eva’s drama is completely ridiculous and insignificant from an adult perspective. By having an older student deliver this viewpoint, the show neatly avoids having the message ignored as coming from some stupid adult who doesn’t know what it’s like be a teenager these days.



Subtext: Maria tells Eva that as a first-year student she should be making out with lots of guys, but not sleep around with lots of guys. But right after that, she starts talking about how she and most of the other Rad girls got chlamydia in their first year, which means they all slept around, making her advice pretty hypocritical.



Subtext: That Sana believes that she is more right than the answer key is a nice way of showing her confidence and overconfidence. She has a very hard time admitting that she is wrong, and in this dialogue she also confidently states that it was Ingrid who wrote the threat letter, something Eva just blindly accepts.



Subtext: Sana thinks she told Eva that she saw Chris and Ingrid making out at the Halloween party, but if you go back and watch the conversation in episode 6, you’ll see that she actually only said she saw him making out with someone. This is yet another example of Sana’s overconfidence.



Culture: Bergen dialect is noticeably different from Oslo dialect, and even though Norway officially endorses and accepts all dialects as valid Norwegian, kids are assholes, and it’s very likely that many would dismiss Eva simply as the new girl who talks funny.



Culture: Nissenhook is a gossip-spreading Instagram account for students at Nissen. If you have a piece of juicy gossip about who made out with who, you can send a DM to the account, and watch as your gossip spreads to the whole school, and this is what Isak did. Normally whoever controls the account should keep their sources anonymous, but in this case Iben managed to find out who sent the tip.



Blink and you miss it: The song that plays over the credits is In Your Face by Die Antwoord, and it starts with “Jealousy makes you nasty”.

