Subtext: What Elias says indicates that he wouldn’t have had any issues with Isak if he knew he was Sana’s friend, which means he can’t have any issues with Isak being gay, which means it’s something else, despite the show hinting all along that that was what the fight was about.



Blink and you miss it: Here’s some details on Vilde’s mom, foreshadowing Vilde’s clip in the finale.



Culture: Birth-years again, again. Olivia is the same age as the rest of the characters, she was born in ‘99. This chat was from when Isak and Sara were dating at the start of season 2 which took place early 2016, which means that Olivia was 16-17, and the guy she had sex with was 14-15.



Blink and you miss it: The scene Sara describes is the party in episode 3 of season 2 where Eva drunkenly leaves with Noora’s keys and phone.

Cinematography: Sana, looking through a doorway, again.



Subtext: “exper5″ was Noora’s mail password, and Sana just overheard the guys talking about how Yousef was meeting up with Noora, so this is the exact moment when she decides to write an email to William to try to get him to take Noora back, so that she will leave Yousef.



Cinematography: Old, discarded carrots on the street. I don’t know what this symbolizes. Sana has given up on Yousef? All men are trash? Help me out here.



Culture: During Ramadan, you are supposed to fast between sunrise and sunset. However, if Ramadan occurs during summertime in the north, that gets pretty difficult. At the end of May when this clip takes place, Oslo has 18 hours of daylight, and it never gets dark during night. The sun sets at almost half past ten like Sana says, and the sun rises again a bit after four in the morning.



Subtext: Sana is straight up lying to Jamilla, she’s not doing good, she is about to lose all her friends.



Cinematography: For probably the second time ever in the series, the background audio is not natural sounds, but an eerie soundtrack that is meant to signal that Sana is in danger. And the camera angle used when Isak finally shows up emphasizes his height so that Sana looks extra small, while Isak is angry, threatening, and towering over her.

Soapbox: Sana’s line is identity politics 101. Isak isn’t a Muslim girl, therefore he can’t possibly know what she’s going through. But Isak, and the show itself, argues against that. It argues for a different philosophy, it argues for universal humanism instead. Because where identity politics focuses on our differences and divides us, universal humanism focuses on what we have in common, and unites us. The hate Sana gets for being who she is, isn’t that different from the hate Isak gets for being who he is.



Subtext: Isak has answered at least one stupid question from Magnus about what it’s like to be gay, and I’m sure he got many, many more from poor, clueless Magnus.



Blink and you miss it: It’s kinda interesting that Isak brings up Jonas as someone he would rush to defend, instead of Even. Friendship loyalty is apparently stronger than love.

