Norwegian Drama

Harry Hole (Netflix) ep. 7 – Someone has to take out the trash [EN]

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT

In episode 7 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Harry Hole), we talk about how Tom's recruitment of Harry is really the episode's whole engine: the car-theft story, "this is my city," the pills, the "first mission." We also dig into how Harry responds — not by refusing, but by going fully outside the law himself: the burner phone, the staged poisoning, breaking a prisoner out to flip him as a witness against Tom. The method is Tom's, not a detective's. And we talk about how the arrest itself is theatre — a planted weapon, an interrogation we're not allowed to hear, a press conference where the journalists already know everything — while the real relationship between Tom and Aminov stays hidden.

Stay to the end — we wrap up with our takeaways from this episode.

Note: contains spoilers for episode 7 only.

Norwegian Drama is a podcast from father and daughter Thoralf and Victoria about Norwegian and Norway-related TV drama. Thoralf is interested in how drama reflects society, history and power. Victoria is a producer and university lecturer in film and TV, with an eye for storytelling and craft. New episodes every week, in Norwegian and English.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 8 – Sesongfinale! Er vi klare for sesong 2? [NO]

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Sesongfinale! Far og datter analyserer og diskuterer episode 8 av LIS – og gjør opp status for hele NRKs første sesong om legene i spesialisering. Vi ser på hvordan serien bruker årstidene på en nødvendig måte – jula er ikke bare pynt – og spekulerer i hvilke karakterer som blir med videre. Vi oppsummerer de store linjene: system mot menneske, og drama mot virkelighet. Og vi har ett tydelig ønske til sesong 2: mer ensemble – gi oss de unge legene og praten dem imellom! Hør helt til slutten, der deler vi våre takeaways fra hele sesongen!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for hele sesong 1.

Norwegian Drama er en podcast fra far og datter Thoralf og Victoria om norske og norskrelaterte TV-dramaserier. Thoralf er opptatt av hvordan drama speiler samfunn, historie og makt. Victoria er produsent og universitetslektor i film og TV, med blikk for fortelling og håndverk. Nye episoder hver uke, på norsk og engelsk.

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Harry Hole (Netflix) ep. 6 – The landlady is his mother [EN]

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The landlady is his mother — and he's on his way home with "news." That's the dramatic irony this episode runs on, and it's one of three things we dig into.

In episode 6 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Harry Hole), the mystery stops being about people and becomes a system: the number five, the five-point diamond, the fifth floor, five days between kills. We talk about how the show stages the breakthrough — not as logic, but as a drug-induced trance, with Harry literally carving the pattern into his bathroom wall. We also get into the season's most morally vertiginous turn: the parallel between Tom Waaler and the murderer collapses into literal identity when Tom kills George, and we're now watching a killer stand inside the room where the case is being solved. And we talk about the Prague strand, which humanises the murderer at exactly the wrong moment — a pregnant partner, a mother he's going to visit, a son sent away at fifteen.

Stay to the end — we wrap up with our three big takeaways from this episode.

Note: contains spoilers for episode 6 only.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 7 – Endelig kom følelsene (og tårene?) [NO]

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Endelig! Episode 7 av LIS leverer det vi har ventet på: ekte, dyptgående emosjoner – og det kom kanskje noen tårer, både på skjermen og i studio. Far og datter spør: Er dette pay-off for tålmodigheten vi har vist gjennom de forrige episodene – var den rolige oppbygningen verdt det? I tillegg: Thoralf glemte kameraet, og datteren er – la oss si – litt irritert. Hør helt til slutten, der deler vi våre takeaways!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1–7.

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Harry Hole ep. 5 (Netflix) – Two men playing God [EN]

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Two men playing God — that's the shape of this episode, and it's what we spend most of our time on.

In episode 5 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Harry Hole), the symbol the show has been seeding since episode two finally gets decoded: the priest explains the pentagram, the husband explains the "mare," and the killer's own logic is stated outright — he sees himself as God's instrument. We talk about how differently that occult-religious frame reads once it's made explicit, especially for viewers outside Norway. We also get into the episode's most morally loaded beat: Harry lets the gang war and the murder hunt collide, Delta ends up at the wrong hospital, and two men are shot — while Tom, on the other side of a bathroom wall, quietly decides who gets warned and who doesn't. And we talk about the one scene that isn't about control or judgement at all: Oleg on the 10-metre board at Frognerbadet.

Stay to the end — we wrap up with our three big takeaways from this episode.

Note: contains spoilers for episode 5 only.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 6 – Hvem er LIS egentlig for? [NO]

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Hvem er LIS egentlig laget for – lege-lobbyistene eller TV-drama-publikummet? Far og datter analyserer og diskuterer episode 6 av NRKs dramaserie om leger i spesialisering. Vi tar også for oss den norske kjærligheten til komiteer og utvalg – i det private bedre kjent som HR-avdelingen – og spør om nepotisme egentlig er noe annet i byen enn på bygda. Hør helt til slutten, der deler vi våre takeaways!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1–6.

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Harry Hole (Netflix) ep. 4 – Join the death squadron? [EN]

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Join the death squadron? That's the pitch Tom Waaler makes to Harry in this episode's jail-cell scene — and it might be the most important scene of the season so far.

In episode 4 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Harry Hole), we talk about how the show suddenly widens its geography: the cold open reveals the killer in Prague, and the diamond trail runs from Sierra Leone through Kiev, East Germany and the Czech Republic. Tom Waaler is unmasked as part of a tuxedoed, hooded secret society — and we dig into the jail-cell confrontation where he confesses to killing Sverre Olsen, delivers his own backstory, and recruits Harry in the same breath. We also talk about how "debts to be collected" and "civil duty" turn out to be the same idea in two different costumes — and how uncomfortably close Harry's own instincts sit to both.

Stay to the end — we wrap up with our three big takeaways from this episode.

Note: contains spoilers for episode 4 only.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 5 – Dugnad på jobb? Nei takk [NO]

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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«Norge kan ikke levere helsehjelp i verdensklasse.» Replikken fra episode 5 av LIS setter tonen – og far og datter er svært skeptiske til episodens store idé: dugnad på jobb. Vi diskuterer også Anne Kathrine som både fornuftens stemme og tante Sofie, Anders Baasmos imponerende evne til å gestalte karakterer – og noen missing links i serien: relasjonene er blitt vel kliniske. Hør helt til slutten, der deler vi våre takeaways!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1–5.

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Harry Hole (Netflix) ep. 3 – Keep an eye on the lake [EN]

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The season's machinery clicks into place. In episode 3 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Netflix), a second woman goes missing in broad daylight, and the killer's signature shifts from a bullet fired at a distance to something far more intimate. We talk about how the episode systematically strips Harry down — his sleep, his service weapon, the case, even a cigarette lighter that won't light — until he's exactly the man Tom Waaler wants him to be: alone, drinking, ignoring the phone. We also dig into the religious symbolism that detonates here after being planted in episode 2, and why that overtly religious layer on a secular Norwegian story lands so differently for an international audience.

Stay to the end for our three takeaways from the episode.

Note: contains spoilers for episode 3 only.

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Harry Hole (Netflix) ep. 2 – Don't pick up the keys [EN]

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:48:02 GMT

Some invitations you shouldn't accept. In episode 2 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Netflix), Harry hits rock bottom — he loses the case, his job, Oleg's trust, and nearly Rakel, while Tom Waaler walks free. We talk about how the episode turns Waaler from a corrupt colleague into something far more dangerous, and what it means when the keys travel from Oleg's hand to the pub floor to Tom's pocket to Rakel's front door. We also dig into Harry's one-sided voicemails to his dead partner Ellen Gjelten, and why they're doing so much of the show's storytelling work without a single line of exposition — plus the religious symbolism piling up around the murder that episode 3 is clearly setting up to detonate.

Stay to the end for our three takeaways from the episode.

Note: contains spoilers for episode 2 only.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 4 – Trenger vi kjente skuespillere? [NO]

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Kjente eller ukjente skuespillere – hva gjør det egentlig med oss som ser på? Far og datter analyserer og diskuterer episode 4 av LIS – NRKs dramaserie om leger i spesialisering. Vi diskuterer hva castingen gjør med troverdigheten, og Victoria savner én ting i serien: lengsel. I tillegg blir datteren målbart irritert over en far som stadig avbryter. Hør helt til slutten – der deler vi våre takeaways!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1–4.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 3 – Er Anders en god sjef? [NO]

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Er Anders en god eller dårlig sjef? Far og datter analyserer og diskuterer episode 3 av LIS – NRKs dramaserie om leger i spesialisering. Vi er uenige om lederskapet på avdelingen – og om hvordan serien skildrer sykdom hos gamle og unge, og hva det gjør med oss som ser på. Til slutt deler vi våre takeaways – hør helt til slutten!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1–3.

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Harry Hole (Netflix) ep. 1 – Series premiere! Is this really Oslo? [EN]

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Series premiere! Father and daughter analyse and discuss episode 1 of Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Harry Hole) on Netflix – "36 Seconds". A bank robbery, a colleague lost, and five years later Harry reopens the case. We start with the obvious question: Norwegians speaking English in Oslo – does it work, or does it get in the way? We ask whether this is the Oslo we recognise, or an Oslo built for an international audience. We argue about the bank robbery – which period is this actually set in? And we make the case for forgetting every other Nesbø adaptation before you watch this one. Listen to the end, where we share our three takeaways from the episode!

Note: contains spoilers for episode 1 only.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 2 – For forutsigbar? [NO]

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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Er LIS blitt for forutsigbar? Far og datter analyserer og diskuterer episode 2 av NRKs dramaserie om leger i spesialisering. Vi savner mer emosjon, oppbygningen kjennes sliten – og når vi skjønner hva som kommer, leverer episoden bare det vi forventet. Eller er det trygghet, ikke svakhet? Der er vi ikke helt enige.Vi går gjennom førsteinntrykket, karakterene, dramaturgien og hva episoden sier om norsk helsevesen og serievesen – med både faglig blikk og litt familiær uenighet.

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1 og 2.

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LIS (NRK) ep. 1 - Endelig sykehusdrama! | (NO)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:17:33 GMT

Første episode av Norwegian Drama! Thoralf og Victoria ser, analyserer og diskuterer LIS – NRKs dramaserie om leger i spesialisering, skapt av Karianne Lund og produsert av Rubicon TV.

Vi går gjennom episode 1: førsteinntrykket, hovedkarakterene, hvordan serien skildrer arbeidspresset på norske sykehus, hva som er godt håndverk og med hvert vårt perspektiv!

Obs: inneholder spoilere for episode 1.

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