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OLA HALVORSEN – Go through a journey where Haugenstua is no longer the point, but part of the story. Photo: NRK
The worst recruits in the world finally returned. Simply more expensive and more fun.
First time service
Norwegian Commission in 12 parts
By: Herman Flesvig
With: Jonas Kinge Bergland, Tord Kinge, Sjur Vatne Brean, Mikkel Niva, Zineb Bensouda m.fl.
Screenplay: Marit Støre Valeur, Rolf Magne Golten Andersen, Herman Flesvig, Erlend Westnes, Åse Marie Hole Karsten Fullu m.fl.
Directed by Erlend Westnes
Seven episodes available on NRK TV now
The success of streaming the two pilot episodes of “The First Time Service” just before Christmas last year undoubtedly caused the NRK system to give away the best credit card. The ten new episodes can be combined with tighter directing, clearer camera guidance, better light and sound, and tighter clips.
Talking to Buffalo Springfield, Bjørk, Jimi Hendrix, Simon and Garfunkel and Kendrick Lamar on the soundtrack was maybe too much, but that’s the way it is when you have a lot of money on your hands. Because where the pilot episodes were a bit pricey YouTube project, this is more in the Hollywood genre.
Includes an even better Herman Flesvig.
He carries (of course) the series alone. Made by a suitably intricate and balanced script that, at times, shines. And because he has become a good physical humorist behind the wheel. The rehearsed movements of Ahre-Ketil Lillehagen (the nickname “Rambo” probably disappeared) and Ola Halvorsen, for example, are characterized by hours well spent in front of the mirror.
TANJA-LAILA: Don’t ask what he’s going to use the cane for. Just don’t ask. Photo: NRK
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In their own way, these five new episodes add depth to the characters, especially Lillehagen. Preben Lohengren and Tanja-Laila Gaup are even more caricatured than necessary, but they have reinforced their stories so that the points are not so repetitive.
For example, Lohengren uses her own finances and her network to collect both the festival-do and the Foodora delivery during practice in the forest. In other hands, this would have been as blunt as it was silly. Here all the forces work together so well that it almost seems likely.
Some things still get too stupid – Ola Halvorsen’s shocking forest experience is one thing. Tanja-Laila’s wishes for Mikkel Niva’s character are also a lot of fun because there are actually two best friends playing a suitably weird RPG. At the same time, Ola Halvorsen has one of the funniest moments of these five new episodes when he has to show melee, as she grew up with him in Haugenstua.
And speaking of which: here, the duly criticized Haugenstua grip is no more part of the story than a slightly cheap point.
AHRE-KETIL: Lillehagen takes on a sadder personality Photo: NRK
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The pre-publicized celebrity jumps are not included in the episodes that NRK has broadcast now. Hivju’s father, Erik, on the other hand, has a role as a kind of commander-in-chief that complicates Sergeant Støland’s life.
Jonas Kinge Bergland as Støland is once again the most solid of the other actors, especially when he swallows hard in fear of Ahre-Ketil’s increasingly dark proposals.
The main part of these first five episodes is a story that, in its own way, goes beyond Preben and Ahre-Ketil. Here you manage to balance the stupid with the funny in a more painful and almost profound way.
When comic book characters become more than just clowns, they become good. Here the “first time service” is very good.
The reviewer has seen the first seven episodes.
