Interesting but not accurate

Lilyhammer is a sitcom, and not meant to be accurate, not even remotely so. It mocks prejudice by showing way over the top stereotypes.
In real life you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a person from any town and a person from say, Oslo (except from their dialect).
As a Norwegian in Seattle, people started asking me for directions after few days. I was taken for a Seattle native, appearing and moving like one (lot of Norwegian ancestry there).

In Cod we trust.

Well, actually people on the train playing loud music do happen a lot here in Norway. And it's really annoying,and it stems from a mix of preferring to not have contact with strangers, and those annoyed by the loud music notwanting to make a fuss, and of course not wanting to speak to strangers. I know. It's a little weird.

Foreigners seem to describe us at first as shut in and kind of conservative, and that's actually to a high degree correct, but the same people also say they've never had better friends, so we're just cold on the outside at first.
As a norwegian I see it as a healthy degree of scepticism, but other people might think something else. As I mentioned, it's a little weird.

When it comes to the hillbilles, I do agree with you a bit. Now, as you mentioned you were in Bodø, in Northern Norway.
What you might not be aware of is that there are actually regional differences when it comes to personality traits here in Norway. At least traditionally. I come from a place 20 minutes outside Oslo, so you must keep this in mind when you read this, but we tend to look at people from northern Norway as more outspoken and friendly. We also believe they swear more,
and that might seem stupid, but actually you can call a police officer a horsecock in Northern Norway and have no problems,
while if you do that in Oslo you would get a fine.
Currently I'm studying in southern Norway, in a city called Kristiansand, which is in what we norwegians call ''The bible belt'', and as you might guess religion is stronger here than in other parts of the country.
Here there are also some personality traits, and while of course not everybody have them, you still notice them. Here in the southern part of the country they tend to shy away from conflict more then say Oslo. I actually noticed this myself after moving here. In Oslo, if a bike was stolen or went missing, one would go to the neighbour and ask straight out if they have seen anything or perhaps know something about the missing bike. I most cases people would say no ( because who would be stupid enough to steal from their neighbour) and that would be that. No hard feelings, just understanding that this was a bad day for the bike owner.
Here in Kristiansand, my neighbour did this. While asking me if I had seen or heard anything he made sure that he was not in any way suspecting me or my housemates. He made sure of this 6 times while asking me. This is just one out of many situations I've experienced this.
So there are some regional differences

The rest of you're points I totally agree on.
That were my one krone. :)

I've never been to Norway, so I can't comment on how accurate the show is. However I can see what you mean about the language.
It is weird watching the show having Johnny speak in English and having some other characters speak back to him in Norwegian. How has Johnny become so fluent in Norwegian that he understands what they are saying and yet he very rarely responds in the language?

I feel this is an attempt to appease both English speaking and Norwegian speaking viewers. They don't want it to be all in English, but they don't want it all in Norwegian either, so they mix it together.

Yeah, well, the show was created and is primarily written by two Norwegians, sooo...

That rug really tied the room together.

LOL who cares? Get a life!

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