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3. If you have Netflix, you may enjoy this series.......Ragnarok
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 11:40 AM
Feb 2020
Ragnorak
This six-episode Netflix commission is the balmiest show on this list: It was filmed amid the magnificent scenery of Odda, which is practically the tropics where Norway is concerned. It’s also, surprisingly, the only one with an overt environmental theme. The villains of the piece run the town’s paper mill, contributing to the climate change that’s shrinking the local glacier (and in the process exposing old secrets fundamental to the plot).

And then there’s the biggest difference, which may help to explain Netflix’s interest: It’s a Scandinavian spin on a teenage superhero story, with a hunky but awkward high schooler (David Stakston) moving to his mom’s hometown and suddenly discovering he can throw a hammer for very long distances. This puts him on the radar of the town’s alpha family, an unusually polished and attractive bunch who are not, we soon find out, strictly human. That’s where the title “Ragnarok” — in Norse mythology, the apocalyptic final battle of the gods — comes in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/arts/television/new-nordic-tv-series.html


The 1st season is only 6 episodes. I didn't think I would like it, but it almost immediately captured my attention. Just the beauty of the Nordic landscape. It's in Norwegian with subtitles. Filmed in Odda Norway. By the end of the 6th episode, it really began to delve in to the whole Thor mythology.

I found your post from 2012 when I did a site search to see if anyone else had posted about the Ragnarok series.

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