Culture: As Oslo city grew in the 1800′s, the city became more segregated. The West side where the Royal castle was located, became the home of upper-middle class Norwegians, while the East side, which had more factories and industry became home to the working class. This division persists in modern day Oslo, the West side is richer and mostly white, while the East side is poorer and have a lot more non-European immigrants. William, being a rich white kid, is a stereotypical West side boy.



Subtext: Noora and Sana are trying to look like older university students, but they have no idea how university studies work, so they’re just repeating what the boys are saying while trying to be as vague as possible as to what exactly they’re studying.



Culture: Lånekassen, or the Norwegian Educational State Fund, handles all student loans and stipends in Norway, which means that every single university-level student knows what it is and have dealt with them to get money to be able to study. If you’re in high school, you probably haven’t dealt with them, because your parents are supposed to provide for you.



Blink and you miss it: Linn is hogging the sofa when they drag Elias to Kollektivet.

Subtext: Elias most probably drank the vodka that Yousef grabbed after the bus party last episode, which means that Sana blames herself, since she organized it. Earlier in the episode she also told her mom that she was sure Elias hasn’t started drinking, so now she accidentally lied to her mom as well.



Culture: The flowers Yousef is picking are called Siberian squill, Scilla Siberica, and are a very common early spring flower in the Nordics. Various spring flowers dominate the landscape in the short period between all the snow disappearing, and the trees getting leaves in late April, and you can see that the entire grass slope behind Sana is full of them.