Lillyhammer is a hoot!
Frankie owns just about every dim-wit in town and if the show continues he'll own every dim-wit in Norway!
How popular is this most bizarre "fish....fisk....out of water" show in Norway and the rest of Europe?
I'm a Slovenian in Denmark, tried watching it, but the way they did the dialogue between Frank and the locals in the first episodes bothered me too much. NOBODY just randomly switches to their language when talking to a foreigner. And NOBODY magically understands them after listening to a few audio books. Ok, he could've learned Norwegian before, but as an another foreigner in Scandinavia, having a conversation with locals with them randomly going into a Danish mode would make things so awkward. I felt uncomfortable just watching it.
shareSorry pal, but they do, all the time.
How they go about the language is very accurate, all the time.
Of course, since this Norwegian vs American culture thing is one of the basics of the entire series.
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IT IS very unrealistic how Johnny understands norwegian so quickly.
I'm danish, but also half norwegian. And I still have a bit trouble understanding norwegian sometimes. Danish/Swedish and Norwegian language is very similar, but the way norwegian people kind of "sing" while they speak, it can be tricky to understand .. Impossible for an american to understand it so quickly. Scandinavian language is known as some of the hardest languages to learn.
And if Johnny spoke English to his buddies it would only be natural for them to respond in English. The way they speak Norwegian/English is very unnatural lol.
But it's obviously done so an american audience will enjoy it more.
And I really like the show btw, and it doesn't really bother me that much, but it is not natural at all.
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There are a lot of shortcuts to spice up the series, and in sum it is (of course) hilariously unrealistic. However the elements are realistic in the sense that they are recognisable - people do answer in Norwegian when talked to in English, although not all the time.
Johnny learning Norwegian too quickly? Yes, probably, however there was this witness protection program, he had been learning a lot before he set his foot here.
There are a lot of shortcuts to spice up the series, and in sum it is (of course) hilariously unrealistic. However the elements are realistic in the sense that they are recognisable - people do answer in Norwegian when talked to in English, although not all the time.
Johnny learning Norwegian too quickly? Yes, probably, however there was this witness protection program, he had been learning a lot before he set his foot here.
Yeah, I laughed when I saw the first episode and how Frank learned to understand the language so quickly. But the show isn't meant to be serious. And it would have made it very tedious for him to need an interpreter all the time.
I don't think Scandinavian languages come that easily to most Americans unless they have grown up around people here who speak it.
But that is a small thing. You have to suspend your disbelief on many issues in order to watch the show and enjoy it for what it is.
I'm from the Netherlands and the only person I know who's whatching the show is my brother. I only watched the first season, after that I lost interest. It's like the producers cannot choose between comedy and crime. Steve plays a superficial caricature of a mobster. I don't know, it doesn't do it for me.
shareIn Finland the show is played by the Swedish language channel, and at least the Swedish speaking Finns seem to love it. I love it too but I think most people just miss it because they don't watch the channel it is on.
Reality television spoils fiction.