Lillehammer is awsome! Very entertaining and fun. Great locations and characters! Ateve Van Zand performance is marvelous and captivating. The serie is like a fresh fruit with a white wine in the afternoon, delicious.

An absolutely delightful show. I am convinced that Frank's adventures in Lillehammer are nothing more than the internal workings of Silvio Dante's mind as he lay in a coma in his hospital bed. From "whaddaya here, whaddaya say" to Pauline Walnuts and Jimmy April showing up, not to mention Gabriella Dante, this has to be the explanation. There is also the use of the Sopranos theme song.Whatever! This is such a great show -it's a Norwegian show, not an American one but it is full of wit and style. Enjoy.

What a mob guy from New York can change in a little town in one of less corrupt country in the world , Norway ....

My wife had just signed up for Netflix a few days earlier and while she was visiting her sister one weekend, I decided to have a look through the various listings. I recognized the name "Lilihammer" from the Olympics about twenty years back and decided to take a quick peak. The moment I saw Steven Van Zandt, I knew this was something I was going to have to watch. I was caught up in the story immediately. Initially, the series has a "Sopranos" flavour, but as it unwinds, you realize that's partly because of the mob presence, and partly because everyone remembers Steven as "Silvio", the Soprano's consigliere. The appearance of Tony Sirico, "Pauly Walnuts Gualtieri" in later episodes, reinforces the "Sopranos" undercurrent. That said, the series does not have the savage feel that the "Sopranos" has. Lilyhammer is a dark comedy. You often find yourself laughing in the face of a murderously menacing situation. Whoever came up with the premise of the series was a genius. You take an outcast mob turncoat, with a price on his head, place him in a quiet Norwegian town that once hosted the Olympics. The moment he arrives in this quiet little town, he decides to do something other than waste away and, using all of his mob learned skills, becomes the owner of a successful nightclub. He surrounds himself with oddball Norwegians and becomes something of a "Don" who endears himself to many who know him by doing almost as much good as bad. Many of the situations in which he and his "crew" find themselves, are hilarious, while others are menacing and deadly. I watched the entire 24 episodes over the weekend. Such a wonderful series only comes along once every decade. Congratulations to Steven Van Zandt.