elifornix As an expat living abroad for 27 years I can relate to all the situations reflected in this TV series. I have not been to Sweden but when you live in a foreign country there are many strange situations you have to go through! funny and not so funny! I had a lot of fun watching this. I read a lot of bad comments about this series and I wonder where all the hatred is coming from??. Give me a third season!!!

sofia I absolutely love this show! I can relate so much to it, with my mother being like Emma (swedish )and my father being like Bruce(very traditional and American). This show perfectly captures what Sweden is really like! I would love a third seasons considering they leave the show on a cliff-hanger with Emma being pregnant.

SnoopyStyle Bruce Evans (Greg Poehler) is an accountant with a few celebrity clients. He abandons his life and job in America to follow his girlfriend Emma Wilk (Josephine Bornebusch) back to Sweden. He's unemployed and doesn't understand Swedish. Her mother Viveka (Lena Olin) thinks very little of him. Her father Birger Wilk is a quirky retired sea captain. Her brother Gustav is 30 years old and living off of his parents.The problem is that Bruce is so pathetic. He's more than a loser. He's so pathetic that he's actually kind of annoying. He does get a few laughs in but no more than a few for the whole series. Bornebusch is a stiff actress but she does get her laughs when her stiffness breaks down. I love Lena Olin but she has the problem that most of her dialog is in Swedish. That's a major problem for the show. Essentially the audience has the read the funny jokes and it's not as much fun. The show got canceled after 4 episodes in the second season due to anemic ratings.

Joshua Donohoe This is one of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time and I'm just "some guy from Australia who knows nothing about Sweden". I liked the US edit so much that I started only watching the original with subs. It's amazing how much the US butcher it and still manage to make it funny.I find myself learning more and more words but you sort of have to because it seems like most the subs you find are done with google translate. That's the good thing (and I mean the only good thing) about the US edit, you know what you're reading is what they're saying and a 5yr old has enough time to read it. That being said season 2 seems to have more English in it, it seems like they're trying to increase their audience to include less intelligent and lazy viewers.It's great to have a quick little pick me up and to have something other your standard US dribble to watch (80 different cop/law/hospital dramas). Cast is great and the fact that the only bad actor is an American just makes it funnier. I mean, what's going on with the odd couple? At least they're butchering one of their own shows for once.