Allerud VGS (2020)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

Norway

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rating

2.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series is about a high school in Oslo where the principal is bad at his job. He hires a talented inspector to help the school, but he worries she might take his position.

light-heartedcomedicsatiricalfast-pacedplayfulquirky

What happens

Allerud VGS (English: Allerud High School) is a Norwegian sitcom series that premiered in 2020 on NRK. The setting is the fictional upper secondary school (VGS being an abbreviation of upper secondary school) Allerud in Oslo. Here the incompetent principal (Christian Skolmen) has to improve the faltering application numbers. He hires a competent inspector (Selome Emnetu) to improve the school, at the same time fearing that she might take over his job. The rest of the main cast include schoolteachers (Marte Mørland, Anette Hoff, Øystein Bache, Herman Flesvig), other school staff (John Brungot, Lisa Tønne) and pupils (Amalie Stuve, Helle Ryg Eia, Johannes Gjessing). The filming was mostly conducted at Fornebu. At the premiere, the series was given a "die throw" of 4 in Aftenposten and in Stavanger Aftenblad; 3 in Dagbladet and 2 in VG. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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