Those in REAL bi-national relationships...

Half of your "plot holes" are there to make fun of Americans cluelessness about other cultures.

I lived a long time overseas and I have no problem believing that an American might think his driver's license is good everywhere.

I just saw the pilot and thought it was charming too. We shall see how the rest of it is.

It's good to see Lena Olin though.

So, of course it is exaggerated - it is a TV comedy, after all - but being from Germany myself and married to an American, I actually found a lot of this rather relatable. It reminded me of situations when my husband had to face my family (esp the whole bit about "why does he not speak the language" :-) and also the sauna situation (that really made me smirk because I used to take my husband to these places where they really tell you off for wearing a bathing suit or swimming trunks, and he is from a conservative American Irish-Catholic family LOL ). Undeniably, there are LOTS and LOTS of differences between Europeans and Americans, which can make for very funny and awkward moments!!

I don't agree with those people saying that Greg Poehler does a poor job acting? I think he's just fine, I actually think he's rather cute (and I can definitely see his sister in him!!). I disagree with those saying his girlfriend is so very hot - I find her rather generic-boring-blonde, plus I was SHOCKED to see that she was born in 1981 - I thought she looked much, much older than that! Lena Olin, on the other hand, is mega attractive and looks FAB for her age!!

Seasong one was just about how he come to sweden, its says is gonna go deeper in seasong 2 some start 1 April in Sweden.

This is a comedy show. This issues you point out are part of that. The fish out of water scenario.

You do realize that Greg Poehler did do this in real life. He followed his girlfriend now wife to Sweden. He has a law degree from Sweden and still (I think) spends a freat deal of time there. This is kind of an autobiography.

Bi-national sounds so strange. I loved the show.I wanted it to run for 10 seasons or more.But interesting shows disappear quickly before the audience has a chance to see it. I'm Austrian born living in the U.S. and the only man I found who could understand and like most of my differences was a young man from Kolkata, India. I've never been comfortable in America even though I've lived here almost all of my life. But we celebrated different holidays and ate our Austrian cuisine as well as Hungarian food because my father was also bi-national- from another country than my mother. They brought us up as European. As a couple, we fit together quite well because we liked the other person's differences and they didn't clash with our values whereas the typical American lifestyle did clash. The program was hilarious. Americans tend to think that no place in the world is as advanced or good or pleasant to live in. This is often due to the fact that the majority of citizens rarely travel outside the U.S. borders.Yes, it's funny wondering if you just had a "hamburger" in Hungary and puzzling if it might have been a "horse burger." I've never considered India as anything but another home and my husband thrives in Austria just as if it were his home. The strangest warning I got before marriage was from a black University counselor who told me that after a few years of marriage,I'd be calling him a "N*****r and he would shun me as well since we were not only bi-national but interracial. That had never occurred to me. Never. That was 42 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary. We have 3 children who are grown, beautiful, intelligent, and successful. They are our ambassadors of goodwill and lead lives their own way with no advice needed from us. But I think that being exposed to German and Hindi and Bengali has made them a little more likely to color outside the lines. And that's a good thing.

>If Bruce is such a great accountant, HOW does he allow himself to run out of funds? He had no financial plan at all? Why does Bruce refuse to work a numbers job when his language skills suck? Why isn't Emma helping and guiding him more?

His gf works at a bank and seems to be pretty well off? Is it hard to accept in your culture that the girl is the main provider in this?

>Why does Bruce think Sweden gives a crap about his US drivers license?

Well it's clueless, but so are most Americans irl

>Why did Bruce even move, if they are dating semi-seriously?

Relationship in the series seems superserious to me, what makes you think it's not?

>Why didn't he research ANYTHING about standard Swedish customs?

Uh, why would you? these little cultural differences give you sth to talk about and there's 1000s of them, really best to experience them yourself instead of googling all