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Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen join us to discuss their hit Norwegian show Norsemen. It’s a sitcom about vikings. It has a particularly Norwegian sense of comedy. Deadpan but brutal. It’s set around the year 790 AD. Throughout the series we see the villagers and vikings deal with daily life. The vikings pillage. The vikings fight amongst themselves. They sacrifice slaves.
The jokes are great. Sometimes it’s straight-faced like The Office, sometimes they play it big and absurd like Monty Python. Except, the violence is real, and their actions have real consequences to the storyline. And at the heart of the show, modernity is closing in on them. New inventions. New norms. Pillaging towns doesn’t pay like it used to.
Jon and Jonas will give us a behind the scenes look at the show. Plus,
they’ll explain Taco Friday: the latest food craze in Norway. The first two seasons of Norsemen are available to stream on Netflix now.
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Guests
- Jon Iver Helgaker
- Jonas Torgersen
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