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SKAM
2015 · TV series · 15 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Julie Andem
The story of young teenagers and pupils from Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and their troubles, scandals and everyday life. Each season is told from a different person's point of view.
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#1 for me all time is this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5288312/
What, a teen drama? Yeah, hear me out. It's a teen drama that avoids every single thing that make teen dramas crap. Single writer and director, storylines and characters are based on research of current issues, dialogue is accurate and not out-of-date, an extensive casting process found a bunch of fantastic age-appropriate actors, and the editing, the soundtrack, and the cinematography is off-the-charts good. If you liked the UK series Skins, you will love this.
The reason for the variable-length episodes is that the show aired in "real-time", so you would get clips throughout the week that are released on the website at the exact time the clip is supposed to be happening. So if it's a scene at the lockers on Monday morning at 11:03, the clip is viewable that Monday morning at 11:03, if it's a Friday night party, the clip becomes viewable that Friday evening, etc. Every week is then rolled up into that week's episode, so you can watch it like that as well. And this structure then automatically makes it so that some weeks have more drama than others, so that week's episode is therefore longer.
The show is currently the darling of the TV world with four remakes already started, two more remakes are filming, and a bunch more in the works. Because the show was an enormous success in Norway, and they managed to rope in teenagers, which is the exact demographic that the networks are bleeding like crazy.
(I liked it so much I spent months perfecting the English subtitles for it, because I got so angry at the fansubs that were floating around)
Something has to change. Hollywood movies are just so receipt oriented. I kind of like super hero stuff, but I hate most of the super hero movies coming out. I loved kick-ass, and I think the various super hero series on Netflix such as Jessica Jones has been quite good.
Other than that I realize I want to see more movies from other cultures. I am Norwegian myself but have tended to gravitate towards Hollywood, because the production and is higher quality and selection of actors is better.
However I have noticed that some of the stuff that I have enjoyed the most and which has felt most fresh such as Skam, has been from my own country.
There is a lot of foreign films I never get access to because they are not really distributed. I notice when recommending Norwegian series or movies to friends abroad, that they are really hard to get hold of and even harder to get subtitles for.
The teen drama Skam only worked because fans made the subtitles themselves for the foreign audience.
Netflix shows a path forward here in that they are opened up for more diversity and allow more foreign series. E.g. you got Norwegian Viking comedy series "The norsemen" on Netflix.
It was made in a way that I think is a great solution going forward for foreign film/series makers. The creators of the Norsemen filmed every scene in Norwegian and English successively so that the show could be shown easily to both a domestic and foreign audience.