For its second outing, the fish-out-of-water dramedy has added Paul Kaye ( Game Of Thrones), Erik Madsen ( Da Vinci’s Demons), Amy Beth Hayes ( Mr Selfridge) and Jakob Oftebro (from foreign-language film Oscar nominee Kon-Tiki). Lilyhammer‘s second season is currently filming in Oslo and Lillehammer, with star and exec producer Steven van Zandt on hand after taking a break from his touring schedule with Bruce Springsteen. Mmmmm.MIPTV Briefs: FremantleMedia, Miramax, Red Arrow International And imagine the smell when they set fire to it all. Imagine it, a ship piled high with corpses. Horses were slaughtered, and dogs – hunting ones, pets, possibly West Highland white terriers – and thrown in.
But they would also be sent off with everything they needed for whatever came next. People of course – Eric (or Erica, ladies got proper Viking burials too), or whichever bigshot it was. Love the Oseberg ship in Oslo though, which, says Neil, wasn't only used to ferry the living, but also the dead. Enough of these village people, bring on the pillage people. To be honest I got a little impatient for the main event, for the great voyages and invasions. He meets experts, drinks coffee (so much coffee), studies rock carvings and burial mounds, eats some proto-Viking marinated pork (looks better than the sheep's head).
That means taking a lot of trains around Scandinavia, looking out the window, thinking like a Viking. Now Neil's trying to get inside their heads, to think like the Vikings did (actually this first one is mainly about pre-proper Vikings, but he wants to understand what they came out of). "It wasn't just what they did that made them dangerous, it was what they thought and what they believed." Norway can be just as bad ass (in a bad way) as New York can.Īlways has been, in fact, as Neil Oliver explains, with relish, in Vikings (BBC2). After the tragic events of last summer, this slightly stereotypical portrayal of the country as an innocent place populated by charming naive sing-song people in bad knitwear looks if not wrong, then perhaps rose-tinted. But it has a certain charm to it, and Van Zandt is very watchable. Certainly a little bit odd (Sillyhammer?). You know, a little bit Crocodile Dundee in New York, a little bit Local Hero, a little bit any number of BBC3 reality shows that send badly behaved British brats to the third world in order to buck up their ideas. You might expect (unfairly perhaps and based only on who's in it and where it's set) that Lilyhammer would be The-Sopranos-meets-The-Killing, a rich blend of grand American masterpiece and Nordic noir. His neighbour – chief of police, and chief sheep's-head-eater remember – begins to get suspicious. The change coincides with Frank's arrival. And suddenly what was a charming sleepy winter wonderland is a hotbed of organised crime and whackage. So Frank whacks the wolf back (well, it's about honour really isn't it, and pride). Awkward.Īnother sheep gets whacked, this time by a wolf. She – the neighbour not the sheep – happens to be the chief of police. A sheep's in fact, and actually it's just fallen out of the shopping bag of Frank's new neighbour (they have sheep's head for tea over there). See, here is a severed animal's head, already. You'd have to saw the horns off first, though. And surely there will be a moose's head turning up in someone's bed. It won't be long before the whole town's going around saying glem det (that's Norwegian for fuhgeddaboudit, I'm actually quite good at Norwegian). Frank hasn't left everything behind, soon he's up to his old tricks – dodgy deals, blackmail, extortion, violence, all carried out with a certain Italian-New Yorker charm of course.
You can take the man out of the mob, but you can't. So there you have it, a New York gangster in embarrassing Scandi jumpers and moonboots, that's what Lilyhammer – a Norwegian-American collaboration – is all about.
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