Subtext: The radio is playing Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran, and just as Yousef moves behind Sana, the lyrics go “My heart’s against your chest, your lips pressed in my neck”. That’s a bit too suggestive, so Sana quickly changes the radio station.



Unfortunately, the channel she changes to is playing Siste Gang by Bendik, which is also a love song. Oops.



Culture: Norwegian women had on average 1.62 children each in 2017.



Cinematography: Throughout this season, most characters and extras are wearing black or white or grayscale clothes, same as Sana herself. If there are colours, they’re usually very muted. Black and white is also used to show Sana’s struggle between being Moroccan or Norwegian, she usually wears both colours, to show that she is a bit of both. And other characters usually get colours to show if they’re with Sana or against her. Here, Ingrid and Sara are wearing mostly black, because they’re trying to smooth-talk Sana into merging their buses.



Subtext: Vilde is trying to make up yet another lie as to why she can’t host a bus meeting at her place, but Sana has seen right through her crap, and calls her out on it.



Vilde once actually argued they couldn’t have a bus meeting at Sana’s because her parents are Muslim, but here she instead attacks Sana to deflect having to host the bus meeting at her place.

Blink and you miss it: Sana’s locker is still saying “whore” from way back in season two.



Subtext: Finally some juicy subtext of characters not telling the whole truth! Here we get to know that there’s history between Even and Mikael, and that Sana knows this history.



Subtext: Also, Even is straight up lying to Isak about what he and Sana were just talking about.



Cinematography: Again with the contrasts, Sana in all black, the Pepsi Max girls in all white. Eva is wearing dark colours, because she is the most opposed to merging with Pepsi Max in the first place. Vilde is wearing pink, because she’s actually fine with it, and Noora is wearing both black and white, because she’s in the middle of it all.



Blink and you miss it: The girls are dancing and singing along to the same song we heard back in the very first episode of the series, Sjeiken 2015, and it’s also the same song Jonas had a nightmare about where Eva was singing it.



Cinematography: Again with the doors. What just happened was “too Norwegian” for Sana, so she retreats behind her own door and closes it. Earlier, the scene where her parents come home and find the vodka, she is in another room, and watches the exchange through a doorway, adding a layer of safety to herself.

