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Lilyhammer (2012)
Entertaining comedy "spin-off"
Lilyhammer is an entertaining piece of comedy entertwined with organized crime.
It was a fun experience watching Silvio, hum I mean Frank/Johnny, come to Norway and build his small humble redemption empire.
I did purposefully watch it keeping in mind the fan theory stating that Frank is in fact Silvio from The Sopranos. In the final season of the HBO show, Tony is in the coma for a few episodes and, in these, he lives another life. According to the theory, as Silvio gets shot, he experieces something similar to Tony's experience : He is reincarnated as Frank Tagliano who bears an uncanny resemblance to Silvio. The attitude, the fact that he owns a bar, "watch the hair"... He then goes to Norway and I'd say it is there that the redemption life starts (both diagetically and theoreticly). The series also enjoys playing on this tight rope. As an exemple, in the first episode of the last season an old man sharing Frank's room tells him something along the lines of : "It is all a dream Silvio".
Overall it was an all-right series with a few fargo-esque elements and who did not take itself too seriously.
A good 8/10
Recommanded if you had a bit of The Sopranos nostalgia and particularly missed Silvio