Norsemen (2016)

Original title

Vikingane

Directed by

Jon Iver Helgaker, Jonas Torgersen

Genre

comedy television series

Country

Norway

Length

3 seasons, 18 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 217 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy series about a group of Vikings living in a village in the year 790. The show follows their everyday lives and conflicts in a deadpan and anachronistic style.

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What happens

Norsemen is a Norwegian comedy television series about a group of Vikings living in the village of Norheim around the year 790. It originally premiered in Norway under the name Vikingane (The Vikings) on NRK1 in October 2016. It is produced for NRK by Viafilm. The series is written and directed by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen. The series is filmed in the village of Avaldsnes in Karmøy municipality, Rogaland, Norway, and it was recorded simultaneously in both Norwegian and English-language versions by filming each scene twice. The first season of the English version was made available on Netflix in August 2017 under the name Norsemen, and season two, which was filmed in early 2017, was made available in October 2018. The third season is named 'Season 0', as it tells the story that led up to season 1. In September 2020, it was announced that the show had been canceled and would not return for a fourth season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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