Kicking off with season 2, I thought I was going to struggle to find interesting details in the first episode of the season, because nothing much happens, right? Boy, was I wrong!



Culture: The music piece in the trailer for Noora’s season is Morning Mood by famous Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. It was composed as the “soundtrack” to a scene set at sunrise in the play Peer Gynt, which was written by famous Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Yes, this will be on the test, write it down!



Subtext: The season starts at the end of February 2016, which means that everyone has now started their second semester of their first year, and have been back at school for almost two months. Long enough for people to have started partying on weekends again, which is when the alleged get-together-blowjob happens.



Blink and you miss it: When William texts Noora that he thinks she looks hot in that shirt, Noora looks at herself critically, and covers herself up by wearing her jacket.



Culture: The logo Vilde is talking about is for their russebukser. If you get companies to sponsor your bus, they often want you to print their logo on your dress in return.



Subtext: Noora intentionally leaves out Vilde when she says who she wanted to become friends with by joining a bus. Ouch.



Blink and you miss it: The first hint we get that Noora lives with roommates is that the shelves in the pantry are labelled with their names. Noora’s shelf is well-stocked, while Eskild’s and Linn’s are pretty bare.



Culture: Noora is a good girl who recycles, and the purpose of the paper bag in the kitchen is to collect paper and cardboard waste to be recycled. However, when she’s about to throw out the empty box of pasta, she sees plastic waste in the paper bag, removes it, and finally finds one of Eskild’s used condoms, that really shouldn’t be there. Eskild apparently doesn’t care about recycling.



Subtext: “Just Netflix” means that Jonas isn’t at Eva’s place for “Netflix and chill”, i.e. they’re not having sex.



Subtext: When Noora says she left home because of too much “guy-on-guy BJ action”, Jonas’ first thought is that she was talking about her parents, and that Noora has two dads, not that Noora lives with roommates. It’s not uncommon to move out from your parents’ to attend high school in Norway, if you live in a rural area. But if you live in the cities, it’s very rare not to live with your parents, which is why Jonas is surprised that Noora doesn’t live with hers.



Culture: Eva, Jonas, and Noora are all born in ‘99 and attending first year of high school, so if the girl Jonas is talking to is born in ‘00, it means that she is still in 10th grade in elementary school.



Subtext: Jonas says that the girl has uneven breasts in the picture, so Eva starts talking about how she’s sure Jonas’ balls are also uneven, while Noora regrets having to listen to this conversation, and is contemplating going back to BJ central to escape it.



Culture: Handels is another high school in Oslo that specializes in economy studies.



Blink and you miss it: When Eva is quoting William, she’s mimicking his voice, and she’s talking with an Oslo dialect, which is completely different from her natural Bergen dialect.



Subtext: The totally random incident Eva accidentally starts talking about is the scene in the first season where William comes up to Noora and tells her that he thinks she’s fucking beautiful.



Subtext: The reason Chris jokes about Eva’s make-up sex with Jonas, if it was a dream or a flashback, is because many viewers thought the scene was either a dream or a flashback, when in fact it was a flash-forward.



Culture: Gran Canaria is to Northern Europeans what Hawaii, Cancun, or Miami Beach is to many Americans and Canadians; Sun, sand, beach, and cheap alcohol.



Blink and you miss it: Eskild is wearing the Jesus T-shirt. His facial expression also betrays that he completely forgot about the favour he promised Noora.



Blink and you miss it: Eskild asked Noora to buy some alcohol for him for the party, she bought him beer, and he makes a pretty hilarious face when he realizes.



Blink and you miss it: Eskild inspects Vilde’s boobs in what is possibly the least straight way possible, as if there’s any doubts left in anyone’s mind at this point that Eskild is gay.



Blink and you miss it: Someone brought flags to the party for some reason, there’s a bunch of Norwegian flags, and one Syrian flag.

