Home for Christmas

I just spent pretty much a whole day binging on this Netflix original during the lockdown here. Wow! This is a brilliant Christmas TV series. I had fun watching this one. The acting was great, and the story was wonderful to watch on screen. I laughed a lot. Plus, it is just great watching something from a Nordic country. A bit different humour. Well done!

The series is basically a one lady show, who is, as a friend of her said: "lovely, weird, funny, crazy, most unpredictable, naive and romantic in the entirety of planet Earth". Johanne's role is so well played that it's difficult not to laugh, cry, suffer, enjoy, feel depressed together with her. Ida Elise Broch, as well as the script, are superb.

What started out being a cliché series about lying to ones parents about bringing home a boyfriend for the holidays...ended up being anything but cliché. I was set to give this a ho-him rating but the series well and truly won me over.

I thought the lead actress was great. I loved some of the series' music and would love to get my hands on songs like "promise" by Faye Wildhagen, "stay with me" by Emma stienbakken, "me" by Emelie Hollow, "its Christmas after all" by SKAAR, and "under the tree" by Sam Pallido. In addition to the music, I also enjoyed seeing some of the Norwegian traditions celebrated. I even enjoyed the Danish reading at Christmas, seems like a nice tradition.

The heart of this series is a lesson about what is important in life, like honoring those who support you and love/except you for everything that you are. I loved that the final answer was so obvious to everyone else.

(Apparently the hidden lesson is that Swedish men really know how to treat a lady. ;-)

This was a delightful surprise and I highly recommend taking the time to watch it.

I am so happy I found this! Its Scandinavian (Norwegian) short series about a girl and the pressure that is being put on her. She is 30 and "boyfriendless", which in her families eyes means that she is incomplete. The quest to prove to her family that she is "normal" and has a boyfriend by the family Christmas dinner time begins!

There is clearly the "Love actually" influence there and you better love that movie too!

The ending will leave you restless! I hope Netflix will create more European series/movies like this!

p.s. dear English speaking people - please watch this with original sound and subtitles, not dubbed. Sincerely, you need to learn another language ;)

Such a beautiful, sad, happy, cracy and unexpected story. I loved it! One to watch! Well done Norway <3