Subtext: Eva is straight up lying to her mom about still being friends with Ingrid and Sara. She’s not going to Ingrid’s cabin, she’s going to Jonas’ cabin. She’d rather take the bus, because if her mom were to drive her, her mom would find out, and Eva isn’t ready yet to tell her mom that she’s with Jonas.



Eva’s mom is completely oblivious to the fact that Eva has had a falling out with Ingrid and Sara since a few months back, but this dialogue also shows that Eva’s mom is currently on a business trip to Switzerland, that she’s frequently gone, and that she’s an absent parent. That she offers to wire Eva some extra money is a typical way for absent parents to assuage their guilt about it.



Culture: The Cabin™ is ubiquitous in Norway, and over half the population have access to one. It’s a way to get away from your regular home in the cities and get closer to nature on your vacation. This particular cabin is owned by Jonas’ family, and he has simply borrowed it for this autumn break. That a 16yo kid borrows the family cabin to stay there for a week with friends, completely without parental supervision, is considered perfectly normal. The episode shows them doing their own cooking several times, and the social media had images of Isak and Jonas doing the dishes by hand.



Blink and you miss it: Eva and Jonas have identical iPhone 5′s, so it’s a complete accident that Eva is grabbing Jonas’ phone to check the time, but one that leads to her seeing a notification from Ingrid.



Subtext: Jonas does eventually play “I’m Yours” as Isak requested, even though it’s a “gay song”, making Isak really happy, neatly foreshadowing Isak’s character arc.



Blink and you miss it: Eva is reading Egalia’s Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg, a landmark piece of Norwegian feminist literature. Ironically, Eva doesn’t know who Norway’s first female prime minister was, though.



Culture: Norway’s first female prime minister was Gro Harlem Brundtland, in 1981. You’re welcome.



Subtext: My Ship Is Loaded is a simple game where the objective is to take turns and say things that all begin with the same letter, and you’re not allowed to say the same thing twice. That Jonas chooses to say his ship is loaded with Erna Solberg is an obvious losing move, and a dig at Eva’s lack of knowledge. He’s trying to get out of the uncomfortable conversation Eva wants to have by attacking her instead. When that doesn’t work, he changes his ship to insects instead, trying to get out of he conversation by pretending Eva didn’t bring up Ingrid. Isak quickly follows Jonas with his own ship loaded with ice cream, because he also wants to stop the confrontation from happening.



Not lost in translation: It’s a lucky coincidence that the Norwegian words for both insects and ice cream start with an ‘i’.



Subtext: The jam session between Elias and Jonas is awful and out-of-tune, in contrast to the one Isak and Jonas had earlier when Elias wasn’t there. Everyone is fighting for Jonas’ attention, and even though Isak liked the situation at first when he was winning against Eva, both him and Eva are now sharing the misery of having lost against Elias.



Blink and you miss it: Isak sets the table, badly. So badly that Eva has to fix it later, adding to her anger at the boys missing dinner.



Culture: All college prep students have to take a third language, but since everyone in a class usually chooses different languages, you have those subjects with students from other classes. Even though Jonas is in the same regular class as Eva and Isak, he’s having French with the students from his class, and from Ingrid’s class, that chose French. So it’s very plausible that he would talk to Ingrid about French homework instead of Eva or Isak.



Eva picked Spanish, and since we never see Isak in Spanish class with Eva and Noora, it’s very likely that he picked German.



Blink and you miss it: Jonas has French homework, making it very likely that Eva has Spanish homework over the break.

