Culture: Yay, another Cabin™, just like the cabin episode in season 1. This time the cabin belongs to Chris’ grandmother, and is located about three hours north of Oslo. And again, staying a week in the family cabin with friends and no parents around when you’re 17 is perfectly fine.



Culture: Kasper’s name is of course a reference to Casper the friendly ghost.



Cinematography: With just small subtle changes in cinematography, SKAM manages to convey a much scarier and creepier vibe. The shot with Sana having a feeling, while Kasper is lingering at the edge of the frame sets the mood perfectly.



Culture: In the basket on the table there are three Norwegian Easter eggs, egg-shaped cardboard containers filled with mixed candy.



Culture: Noora is reading The Girl who Played with Fire, a crime novel by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. It’s the second book in the trilogy that starts with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In Norway, reading crime novels during Easter break is a tradition that goes back almost 100 years.



Culture: Jodel is a social app that was kinda popular in Norway at this time, and the idea is that you can post messages anonymously, but they only show up to other users who are close to you. That Jodel is empty, and that the nearest Tinder profile is 20km away, means that the girl squad is in the virtual middle of nowhere.



Blink and you miss it: Eva doesn’t want to play Trivial Pursuit, just like she didn’t in the cabin episode in season 1.



Lost in translation: The Ouija board spells out “noen her”, which means “someone here”, but it also starts with “no”, just like Noora’s name.



Subtext: The Ouija board spells out “homo” when Chris asks about Isak, but at this point only Eva and Noora knows that Isak is gay, and neither of them wants to share this secret with the rest of the girls. Likewise, the board says William is thinking about someone in the cabin, which is another secret Noora doesn’t want Vilde to know. So the board appears to be telling the truth, which makes Noora scared that it will tell Vilde who William is thinking about.



Subtext: The reason Noora doesn’t want to show her phone to Vilde is because she has been texting with William, and she doesn’t want Vilde to see that.



Subtext: Vilde is listing all the symptoms she claims are associated with gluten allergy, but in reality she’s tired and weak because she’s not eating properly, and Noora recognizes these as signs of an eating disorder.



Culture: Noora is not making Mexican tortillas, which is what most people associate with the word. She spent years in Madrid, so she is making a tortilla española, a Spanish omelette with egg and potatoes.



Subtext: Noora never answers Vilde because they’re getting interrupted by Kasper being a creep, but the reason Noora knows a lot about food is because she has suffered from an eating disorder in the past, and learning more about food and what you need to eat and why you need to eat it is one way of conquering the disorder.



Blink and you miss it: Vilde really wants to be helpful, and a cooking class is almost like a self defence class, right?



Subtext: William’s text directly contradicts what Eva is saying, which means the Ouija board wasn’t telling the truth.

