They are here –
It’s a thoughtful, moving, often ribald and funny tale of worlds colliding.
(Some spoilers below, but no major reveals.)
Series creators Eilif Skodvin and Anne Bjørnstad wanted to follow up their successful series Lilyhammer with a science fiction story built around the idea of refugees arriving from different historical periods rather than different countries, and they combined the concept with a hard-boiled murder mystery. They’ve cited District 9 and The Leftovers among their influences, along with classic novels like Aldous Huxley’s
Five years later, the blue flashes have become a common occurrence, with some , “temporal refugees” (known as the titular “beforeigners”) arriving in Norway each year. All hail from three periods: the prehistoric Stone Age, the Viking era, and the th century. None can remember anything about their passage through time, and as they struggle to assimilate in this confusing new world, modern residents are divided between those who encourage “temporal diversity” and those who exhibit strong anti-refugee sentiments.
Lars is now divorced and addicted to temproxat, a drug administered via eyedrops routinely given to the refugees to ease their sensory overload. His posh neighborhood is now a beforeigner ghetto, his ex-wife has remarried a th century beforeigner named Gregers (Kyrre Haugen Sydness), and his teenaged daughter Ingrid (Ylva Bjørkås Thedin) is preparing for her russefeiring (a Norwegian tradition akin to senior spring break).
Then a female body with Stone Age tattoos washes up on the beach, showing evidence of strangulation. Lars must solve the case with his new partner, Alfhildr (Krista Kosonen), the first Viking beforeigner to join the police force straight out of the academy. Their investigation brings them into contact with a sex club operated by a gang of Bohemians, a community of “trans-temporal” people (modern residents who join beforeigner communities and adopt the dress and customs of their chosen period), a Stone Age crime lord named Navn (Oddgeir Thune), anti-technology “neo-Luddites,” and a beforeigner who just might be the great Norse pagan warrior Thorir Hund (Stig Henrik Hoff), among others.
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