Just binge-watched the FULL season 1 on Netflix, finished last night.
It paints a highly plausible scenario, chilling and compelling.
Many times I considered Prime Minister Berg as a born-again Quisling —it’s amazing nobody in the film flung that insult at him.
I also thought the main character —a Secret Service guy who is suddenly called on to play greater and greater roles in dealing with the Russians— was cracked up to be a kind of hero, though in my opinion he was pretty much a collaborator.
I think 95% of Freepers would immediately identify with the “Free Norway” group within one or two episodes.
There are 10 episodes in season 1, and I believe the last one is the best.
I really REALLY hope they do another season, I liked this much more than The Walking Dead.
I was in Norway in 1979.
I asked if they were concerned about the Soviets with a shared border and all.
“The Russians? No - we’ve never had a problem with them. Germans though....” One relative had been in the Norwegian Resistance. Not even his family knew anything other than that. “For the Nazis it is not very long ago.”
Another part of the series I found credible was the two-faced nature of America’s allegiance to Norway:
1. “Hey, ANYTHING we can do to help, ole buddy, ole pal..! You are our DEAR ALLIES FOREVER..! LOVE YA..!”
Followed 10 minutes later by...
2. “Get the hell off my property..!”
Those two are put nearly side-by-side in this series. The US Ambassador is a cold, white homosexual, but it was very easy for me to see him as a thinly-veiled stand-in for our own POTUS:
“I will work tirelessly, I will not rest until....blah, blah, blah...”
It burns horribly, but yeah, I consider this a very apt assessment of nearly EVERY allegiance we used to have, and (sorta) have now.
If a fiction writer from NORWAY cracks it up that way, how might a writer from, say, Britain, cast the relationship..?
Or Taiwan..?
Or Israel..?
My suspicion is the gloves would come flying off in a microsecond.
I’d recommend this series to all Freepers.