Lilyhammer (2012)

Directed by

Ole Endresen, Øystein Karlsen, Simen Alsvik, Steven Van Zandt

Genre

comedy drama, crime television series

Country

United States, Norway

Length

3 seasons, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 287 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A New York gangster enters witness protection and moves to a small town in Norway. He tries to build a new quiet life but his old habits keep getting him into local trouble.

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What happens

Lilyhammer is a crime comedy-drama television series starring Steven Van Zandt about a former New York–based gangster named Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway. The first season premiered on Norwegian NRK1 on 25 January 2012 with a record audience of 998,000 viewers (one fifth of Norway's population), and premiered on Netflix in North America on 6 February 2012, with all eight episodes available in full for streaming on the service. Lilyhammer was promoted as "the first time Netflix offered exclusive content". The spelling of the series title alludes to Tagliano's dog Lily, killed in the first episode during an attempt on Tagliano's life, and the way that Tagliano and some other Americans pronounce the town's name. The series produced three seasons; the final episode aired 17 December 2014. On 22 July 2015, Van Zandt posted on Twitter that the series had been cancelled, and the following day Netflix confirmed that they were pulling out. Van Zandt's character Frank Tagliano draws parallels with his character Silvio Dante from the HBO series The Sopranos. They are meant to be different, but most traits are the same between the two. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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