Subtext: Vilde knows that Chris just got here, but she told her to wait outside, and she looks really scared when the doorbell rings, which means that she doesn’t want Chris to come in. She’s hiding her private life even from Chris, her best friend.



Subtext: Sobril is a trade name for Oxazepam, an anti-anxiety drug that’s also used to treat alcohol withdrawal, which means that Vilde’s mom is struggling with alcoholism or mental illness, or both.



Subtext: Vilde lies to her mom about who was at the door, and she lied to the guy at the door about her mom. We also see her going through household bills, so she’s parentified, taking care of the household, taking responsibility, and shielding her mom.



Culture: The show is full of socio-economic markers, and how Vilde lives tells us a lot more about her. When the other characters either live in nice single-family houses, or in nice, large, inner city apartments, Vilde lives in a smaller apartment with her single mom, further out in the suburbs of Oslo. While the other characters are all comfortably middle-class or upper middle-class, Vilde isn’t, her family struggles with money, so she is probably lower middle-class.



Subtext: P-Chris’ dream is a direct foreshadowing of what he will do later in the episode when he asks Emma out right in front of both Eva and Jonas.



Subtext: Eva says she’s doing “nothing in particular”, which means that she’s lying to her friends about sleeping P-Chris, and that she doesn’t think what they have is very serious. That’s gotta hurt, even for unrepentant fuckboys like him.



Throwback: The final episode is full of throwback references to things that happened earlier in the series. The same name joke is of course a reference to P-Chris meeting girl Chris in the very first episode in season 1.

Subtext: Jonas is embarrassed about dating Emma, he’s lying to her about not being embarrassed, and he’s lying to his friends about what he’s doing, telling them he was at McDonalds, and not that he was hanging out with her.



Throwback: Julian Dahl gets an honorable mention, is fleshed out a bit, and appears to be a bit of an odd guy that everyone knows.



Blink and you miss it: Magnus is trying not to laugh at Vilde for not knowing Mahdi wasn’t Muslim. He’s known at least since season 3, when he tries to make a joke about it just before Isak comes out to them.



Subtext: Vilde is actually completely wrong about Eva and P-Chris. He’s more into her than the other way around, Eva is just having fun and enjoying the sex.



Throwback: Jonas posted on Instagram back in season 1 about him and Eva watching Fresh Prince and eating nachos.

Subtext: Vilde says she wants to borrow money from Chris for clothes, but as we saw in Vilde’s clip, she’s probably actually asking to borrow money to cover bills like the maintenance fees for her apartment.



Subtext: And for the last time ever the show has a conversation about one thing, that applies perfectly to the main character. Eva is talking about kosegruppa, but accidentally inspires Chris to try to help out Vilde more.



Blink and you miss it: The model penis has been joined by a pile of condoms and two bottles of lube. I hope Dr Skrulle has gotten better at showing people how to put on a condom since last time…



Subtext: Chris is directly echoing what Dr Skrulle said to her, but re-writes it to apply to Isak instead.



Culture: Since both Isak and Even are 18 years old at this time, they can legally buy beer, and drink it outside school.



Lost in translation: Yellow curtains is “gule gardiner” in Norwegian, which starts with ‘g’.

Not lost in translation: William and his dad talk to each other in English, which probably means that his dad doesn’t just live in London, he is from England originally.



Throwback: Noora is referencing the fact that William wrote the entire May 17th article for her, and that he did a damn good job of it.



Subtext: Given the bench talk with Sana in episode 7, and after getting shit himself for making out with Even, Isak probably realized how much more shit Sana gets than him, and how strong she is for being able to handle it better than he would.



Subtext: William straight up lies to his dad. He never talks to Noora about moving back to London, because he already knows it’s the wrong thing to do for both her and him, so he just makes the call then and there to stay in Oslo with Noora.



Subtext: Surrogate parents Eskild and Linn are having the exact same conversation as if they were Noora’s real parents, and as if she was moving away for the first time, and they deal with it like good parents would.

Cinematography: Throughout the entire season we’ve seen Sana wear nothing but black and white clothes, but now in the finale, Sana wears the most colourful clothing, outshining everyone else, instead of trying to hide and blend in the background as before.



Lost in translation: Magnus mouths “går det bra?” to Vilde. “You doing ok?”



Lost in translation: The ending montage contains screenshots of online conversations between real viewers of the show, both from the official show website, and from fan groups on Facebook. I tried adding subtitles for these comments, but it completely diminished the impact of Jonas’ speech. But here’s what these four commenters are saying:



“Sana needed this so much! And damnit, I did too!”



“I feel this group has become a large, nice, alternate family”



“Yes, I’m gay, and Evak opened…”



“Crying, because I’m Vilde.”

Now I’ve been happy lately

Thinking about the good things to come

And I believe it could be

Something good has begun

Oh, I’ve been smiling lately

Dreaming about the world as one

And I believe it could be

Someday it’s going to come



‘Cause I’m on the edge of darkness

There ride the Peace Train

Oh, Peace Train take this country

Come take me home again



And done, finally. I hope you all have enjoyed reading this series of posts, and that I helped you find new details, new things in the show that you missed, despite having seen it a million times already. Feel free to comment on the posts, or throw me an ask if I missed something, or is horribly wrong about something, or if there’s something still that is lost in translation.



But for now, takk for alt, och tack för mig.

