History Series / Lilyhammer

* FanDisservice: Chris, Sigrid's new boyfriend, is quite handsome and charming... until you find out that he has a penchant fetish for breastfeeding. Taken UpToEleven when he tries to surprise her in the bathtub naked... and the bath's full of milk. Even Sigrid is clearly frightened by this.

Broadcast by NRK (the Norwegian equivalent of Creator/TheBBC) in Norway and available on {{Creator/Netflix}} in the United States, ''Lilyhammer'' is unabashedly and unashamedly ''Series/TheSopranos'' [[InSPACE in NORWAY!]]. ''Sopranos'' alumn Creator/StevenVanZandt more or less plays an expy of Silvio Dante, and much of the comedy comes from watching him tackle the totally unfamiliar landscape of rural Norway. The series has turned out to be a huge success in Norway, while garnering ... slightly less attention in the US. The second season saw the inclusion of more (famous) American actors, as well as a few British ones. The third season was released in November 2014.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety/ArtisticLicenseLaw: In real life, toy guns are required by law in most countries to have some obvious way to show that they're a toy, and under [[http://www.udi.no/Norwegian-Directorate-of-Immigration/Central-topics/Protection/New-in-Norway/Knowing-the-law/#weapons Norwegian law]], it's illegal to carry a realistic looking one. That makes the police commissioner's reactions to Geir stopping the marathon due to seeing Frank with a realistic-looking toy gun a rather large example of this trope, particularly considering the then-recent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks shooting and bombing]].

* RealityEnsues:
** Most memorably when Frank tries to bribe his case worker to let him open a bar.
** Dag's Christmas tree transportation business doesn't take, so he crashes the car into a lake and tries to claim the insurance. The policeman and the insurance company investigate his claim and find evidence of fraud quite quickly.

* ThemeTwinNaming: Frank and Sigrid's children are christened Bjørg and Bjørn (instead of ''Asbjørg'' and ''Asbjørn'', or what Frank called those names, [[UnfortunateName Ass-bjorg and Ass-bjorn]]).

* Hypocrite: Despite Frank's disdain and outright rejection of immigrants who "leach off the national wealth," as indicated by his rewrite of Jonas's speech for National Day, Frank (an immigrant to Norway himself) happily accepts one of Jan's schemes to defraud the Norwegian government out of 500,000 kroner (about $60,000) for Frank's business.

* Hypocrite: Despite Frank's disdain and outright rejection of immigrants who "leach off the national wealth," as indicated by his rewrite of Jonas's speech for National Day, Frank (an immigrant to Norway himself) happily accepts one of Jan's schemes to trick the Norwegian government into giving Frank's business 500,000 kroner (about $60,000).

* TheWarOnTerror: Geir is wholly convinced that Frank is a wanted al-Qaeda terrorist.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Torgeir's reaction to Arne's mother.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Frank is this or just a JerkAss.

* AntiHero: Frank, full stop. He's a career criminal who's using his talents to up-end a peaceful rural community, and we're cheering him on. Granted, he does toe the line of falling into full-time VillainProtagonist, but he's certainly LighterAndSofter than [[Series/TheSopranos Tony Soprano]].

''Lilyhammer'' is a Norwegian-American co-production that describes exactly what happens [[XMeetsY when]] TheMafia meets NorseByNorsewest. After the death of [[TheDon his boss]], [[BigApplesauce New York]] mobster [[AntiHero Frank Tagliano]] is betrayed by his new Capo and nearly killed (unfortunately, [[KickTheDog his dog is not so lucky]]). [[DefectorFromDecadence Tired of the Mafia lifestyle]], Frank turns state's evidence and enters WitnessProtection. Deeming New York to be unsafe, Frank demands that the FBI send him to Lillehammer, whose beautiful surroundings he remembers from watching the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames 1994 Winter Olympics]] on TV.

* {{Badass}}: Duncan, the British gangster, singlehandly lays almost every one of the Bikers on their asses and doesn't even flinch when a gun is pulled on him.

** More likely, he can speak it (badly) if he wants too, but seeing as practically every single norwegian knows English, he chooses not to, as English is much easier to him.