Frikjent

7.8/ 10

40 min

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gumstarr • 19 January 2016, 13:07

In an attempt to make my life sound a bit more interesting than it actually is, I have sometimes heard myself say at parties and parties: “What I love about living in Amsterdam is that you are at least unanimous about the street here. can. That you can just do your thing without anyone caring. ”. A bit of an affectionate pomposity, because what that 'thing' is exactly, I don't know. Never mind that it would be captivating enough to catch even one stare. So from now on just do normal on family birthdays. But anyone who, like me, grew up in a hamlet, knows that living in a city with only one bakery is something else than turning left on the rose canal with raging taxi drivers on the tram tracks. In smaller communities somehow there seems to be a somewhat unhealthy interest in the life of the neighbor. As a single mother, “I heard he left her because she spent all his money on those expensive branded bags.” During the annual fair, there are tongues with the married fishmonger from herring cart The Laughing Lekkerbek? Don't think that the next day the other mothers in the schoolyard will exchange a word with you. Does your morning ritual consist of safety pins through your brow and acute fire hazard from the two canisters of hairspray needed to keep that poisonous green mohawk upright? Prepare for more judgmental looks than at the hat gate of Memphis. If these kinds of innocent things already cause you to be stared at by everyone on the high street like a leper, then you can have a blast when your fellow villagers think that you have really done something terrible. Something as terrible as Aksel Borgen in the Norwegian series Frikjent, for example. For years Aksel in Malaysia in his expensive Italian tailor-made suit plays the shrewd businessman when suddenly the phone rings. Norway on the line. The company that has been the lifeblood of his native village since time immemorial is about to collapse and they need his help. Aksel is not averse to being hired as a possible savior, but he is not immediately eager to jump into the first plane. There are still some corpses hidden in the closet of his boy's room. In the end, pride wins over restraint and so Aksel is given the task not only to save an entire village from bankruptcy, but also to deal with the past that kept him in a grip all along. And then there are still people (read: women) who dare to argue that men cannot multitask. Pùh! Frikjent is proof that you need a solid story, a solid cast and a solid setting to create a solid series. No mind blowings that leave you in total shock in your living room, but a reasonable series that just does its job. In fact, Frikjent is the Opel among the series. You can easily hang a rut full of peanut butter and sprinkles behind it and then it will pull you and you his' n hers Gazelle bike to any campsite in the Dordogne without any problems, but don't expect all the necks of the people on the boulevard to break when you in your cornflower blue Zafira passes by. You won't bruise your friend on the couch from the tension, but at the end of every episode there is enough to watch the next one. If you keep up that pace, you'll have it out in three or four evenings and you can look back on a satisfying week of entertainment on Sunday evening. www.gumstarr.com