Beforeigners: Mörderische Zeiten

I have watched the first 3 episodes and I am completely hooked. This is the best TV I have watched for ages: great production values, smart and funny dialogue and likeable characters. It defies easy categorisation as it is a show that makes significant political critiques while being laugh out loud funny, has the maddest story line ever while somehow managing not to be completely ridiculous and is full of truly emotional moments. It is a comic, sci fi, time travel inspired, cop drama with drugs and sex, vikings and bohemians. I can't believe I've just written that sentence AND given it 8 stars!!

I love good scifi from The Expanse, Raised by Wolves to Altered Carbon, (Norwegian) Ragnarok, am clearly not a purist. Most high rating Scandi-anything shows have worked for me.

But I'm also super bored by time travel theme (after overdosing on 12 Monkeys, Fringe, Centurion) to the point that I couldn't sit through the 1st season of Dark.

The only recent time travel shows that managed to grab me are Outlander and The Nevers.

What stands out with Beforeigners: it is not obsessed with the "technical correctness" of time-jumping. It has hyper specific time travel "era points", fast pacing. I also like the subtle but lethal humor about Vikings and religious doctrines. It's almost like the story is not very serious, but at the same time, it is also making specific moral/ socio-cultural/ political points.

The cliff hanger at the end of first season is very daring and enticing. Overall, I've been entertained, so, highly recommended.

This show is absolutely brilliant! It is wrongly categorized as "Drama/Sci-fi". It is deliriously hilarious! I dare you to watch it alone and not laugh out loud. The concept, acting, screenplay and cast are all brilliant. The rarest (and best) part of all is the originality of concept. This is HBO's first venture into Norway. For me, most HBO series are seriously lacking. Even the wildly popular "Game of Thrones" is loaded with gratuitous violence, sex, language, etc. I find this boring. Even their big budget series "Westworld" is highly un-original and inferior when compared to this small series. With the exception of HBO's 2016 TV Mini-series "The Night Of" (8 Episodes), this is the best show they have made in years; bar none. If you have not heard of Danish actress Krista Kosonen, you will soon; I promise. Besides several roles in smaller TV shows or films, she had a bit part in a huge one: Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner 2049" (2017). Now, she has a lead role in a brilliant HBO TV Mini-series (6 episodes). Go Vikings!!! I love it.

What a surprise to see second season have arrived! This Is brilliant multi genres show with cold but great humor injections that I would definitely recommend to sci-fi fans!

I looked out this show, because I heard that in this show Krista Kosonen speaks languages that she doesn't actually speak irl. I wanted to see how good work she does. But yeah, I forgot that aspect as soon as I found the show. It's not Krista, it's Alfhildir, a bad ass police and a soldier. The show is funny, witty, very perceptive about nuances of the present day nationalism and migration themes. Also I love love love the "old languages" in the show #linguisticnerd .

Okay, there are also many historical flaws (it almost hurt me to see modern harness on a horse in year of 1300 or something. Like come on, wrap something over them or something) and inconsistencies, but I can forgive them, because the show is very good. Oh and also, good work Krista! You nailed the languages!