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.

Actually quite good and charming. Norwegian feel good. The dubbed version is awful

It's fun and light hearted, just how Christmas should be