SKAM creators really know how to portrait relationships between young people on a tender yet realistic and raw way. All kind of interactions are showed on the episodes (friendship, romantic plots, betrayals, fights
). The show also displays really interesting topics such as bullying, religion, multiculturality, eating disorders or sexuality among many others. The script shows a realistic portrait not only of the Norwegian youth, but also of most European youth.
The way the show is edited is great as well: The music chosen for each scene, the way the camera sometimes focuses on facial expressions of the characters because those are more valuable on certain moments than the spoken words, the close-ups of eyes, hands or smiles everything is really thought out.
The first season shows Eva as the main character and introduces most of the cast we'll be watching on next seasons. Eva is dealing with many issues such as bullying, carefree parents, trust missing to Jonas, her boyfriend and her own infidelity.
Noora, second season's main character is a young girl who lives with two flatmates. She is a powerful person with strong beliefs about violence, feminism and worldwide war issues, during the season she will have to deal with her values because of the person she falls in love with.
Third season's main character it's Isak, who we have met before during season one and two. Isak is a seventeen year old who is dealing with his homosexuality. The way this plot is portrayed on the show it's just astonishing realistic.
Gay story lines are growing more and more these days on TV shows, movies and books and I think that is fantastic. Most people fall in love with the romantic scenes, I do too, but the most interesting thing to me is discovering how the characters deal with transition to self-acceptance of their sexuality. I have always felt that those important moments about dealing with sexuality are not always represented on a realistic way when portrayed on screen or, if they are, there are not given the value they really have: Many times we just see a person trying to hide it and then boom! he or she decides to come out. There are only tiny little pieces about the struggle of dealing with self-acceptance of being gay. I feel that SKAM has managed to go beyond on that.
The short clip "Gay" that showed Isak on his computer at 3.03 taking an online gay test and looking for tips and tricks to feel sexually attracted to girls caused a big impact on me, while watching it you can really feel that he is fighting a huge battle because he doesn't want to be who he really is. The way Tarjei Sandvik Moe portraits that little yet special moment it's just heartbreaking, absolutely wonderful.
As the plot continues, we can see more and more about Isak loneliness and how he keeps pushing away everyone who cares about him just because he keeps fighting against his feelings and his identity.
The way the show is edited is great as well: The music chosen for each scene, the way the camera sometimes focuses on facial expressions of the characters because those are more valuable on certain moments than the spoken words, the close-ups of eyes, hands or smiles everything is really thought out.
The first season shows Eva as the main character and introduces most of the cast we'll be watching on next seasons. Eva is dealing with many issues such as bullying, carefree parents, trust missing to Jonas, her boyfriend and her own infidelity.
Noora, second season's main character is a young girl who lives with two flatmates. She is a powerful person with strong beliefs about violence, feminism and worldwide war issues, during the season she will have to deal with her values because of the person she falls in love with.
Third season's main character it's Isak, who we have met before during season one and two. Isak is a seventeen year old who is dealing with his homosexuality. The way this plot is portrayed on the show it's just astonishing realistic.
Gay story lines are growing more and more these days on TV shows, movies and books and I think that is fantastic. Most people fall in love with the romantic scenes, I do too, but the most interesting thing to me is discovering how the characters deal with transition to self-acceptance of their sexuality. I have always felt that those important moments about dealing with sexuality are not always represented on a realistic way when portrayed on screen or, if they are, there are not given the value they really have: Many times we just see a person trying to hide it and then boom! he or she decides to come out. There are only tiny little pieces about the struggle of dealing with self-acceptance of being gay. I feel that SKAM has managed to go beyond on that.
The short clip "Gay" that showed Isak on his computer at 3.03 taking an online gay test and looking for tips and tricks to feel sexually attracted to girls caused a big impact on me, while watching it you can really feel that he is fighting a huge battle because he doesn't want to be who he really is. The way Tarjei Sandvik Moe portraits that little yet special moment it's just heartbreaking, absolutely wonderful.
As the plot continues, we can see more and more about Isak loneliness and how he keeps pushing away everyone who cares about him just because he keeps fighting against his feelings and his identity.