Despite being in Norwegian, it’s drawn viewers from countries around the world who have all pictured themselves locking lips with William, dishing spicy one-liners like Sana, or coming out to friends like Isak. All fighting for a show that doesn’t really need the help. They’re hard at work tweeting at celebrities and launching petitions for the network on which it aired, NRK, to add English subtitles for international fans. Was this some grassroots PR at work? Was she somehow involved with the show? “No,” Hanne Selboe Karagülle assured me, “I am not involved in the series in any way, just a fan (like everyone else in Scandinavia it seems)!” Later, I would discover that fans, people like Karagülle, were on a tireless crusade to make this racy teen drama more popular. This past week, I received an email from a 24-year-old girl urging me to write about this Norwegian TV series, Skam.
