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Norsemen (2016)
Mediocre at best
Comedy is sometimes idiosyncratic and some sorts of norwegian comedies are quite good. Lillyhamer is a completely interesting one. Vikingane (norsemen ) is not really good to be honest. Some stuff quite work well in chemistry elements regarding Orm and Rufus utter incompetence, some secondary characters, and certain medievalist viking tropes are tolerable, even funny at times. But it lacks introspective, doesnt say too much that yes the vikings were brutish savages and rudimentary people but what else? Gross out humour doesnt work IF it works to make a thing about it. The worst characters are by far the fat chieftain and the blonde valkyrie archetype, don't get me wrorng it doesnt work at some many levels that seems so forced!
Better parodies have come around regarding life during the early ages, even incredible ones like Monty Python´s the holy grail, but this is just mediocre, i feel sorry because comedies from abroad serves us ti highlight many cultural tropes but it's so boring at times.
Historia de un crimen: La búsqueda (2020)
it's just a telenovela glorified with better production values.
Structurally speaking is not a mess, and some acting is quite passable albeit there's lots of scenes that remind you of Soap Operas and, not in a good way. To be honest, you can watch it doing chores and for the sake of constructive criticism. But in other cases is just plainly forgetable. This case historically speaking was a smoke bomb to many stuff happening in that political time. In brief words it's just a telenovela glorified with better production values.