#Lilyhammer

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Steven Van Zandt as Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano in Lilyhammer 2012-14 

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Lilyhammer intro

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Cosmo

Siamo alla fine della terza settimana di gennaio. Il tempo come al solito è tiranno e vola spietatamente verso la vecchiaia. Come si è capito oggi sono di pessimo umore. Pensavo di essermi lasciata alle spalle almeno un gruppo di genitori con il primo anno di liceo del nano malefico, ma oggi mi hanno aggiunto al gruppo e le prime parole sono contro alcuni alunni che disturbano in classe, mentre…

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over the sopranos blog break i watched lilyhammer show btw kinda fascinating little series it’s got bruce springsteen in the later eps if any of you are interested in that guy

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The manager of a nightclub is attacked by bikers.

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i watched an hbo documentary about steve today and it was super interesting but what i'm mostly shocked about is that i just now found out about lilyhammer! i immediately had to renew my netflix subscription and start watching it

Haha yess! In Norway Little Steven is practically a household name because of that show. We love him! ❤️

Also, it is VERY funny hearing him pronounce Norwegian names 😂

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14, 15 and 20 for the ask game!

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

EHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. mostly no! norway does not have a big movie industry, and 80% of the movies we do make seem to be ww2 related in some way, and the rest all seem to be rather depressing and bleak or just... not my thing at all. (here i was going to talk about an animated movie they played for us in middle school that was just horribly graphic for some ungodly reason and it triggered All Of My Mental Illnesses but i just found out that one was danish so nvm haha.) there's also the Awkwardness Vibe. i do not think it's possible for norway to create a movie that is not steeped in awkwardness, so any movie that is made here must take advantage of the awkwardness. my favourite example is The Troll Hunter, which is framed as a school project home video and therefore Works. it might also just be a dialect thing, where only people in oslo (the capital) Speak Like That, and most norwegian cinema is 95% oslo dialect, and it just sounds really fake and theatrical to everyone else.

HOWEVER. THERE IS ONE (well, two. they made two movies) THAT I LIKE. AND THAT MOVIE IS ASKELADDEN / THE ASH LAD. it's an adaptation of norwegian fairytales. which fairytale? all of them. at once.

is it GOOD? i don't think it's good. but i love it. it's for Me. they made the ash lad movies for Me Specifically. it has danish villains. it references paintings by theodor kittelsen. askeladden has a dead magpie in his bag. it's anything i could ever want (i would also add that these movies were made with the help of the czech fairytale movie industrial complex, which makes me very excited. the czech republic is really big on making fairytale movies and have a lot of resources for it! that's also why a knight's tale has so many czech names in the credits!) as for TV, i think the biggest exports are Lilyhammer and Skam, neither of which i have seen. my #1 top favourite norwegian tv show ever is a show called "don't do this at home" where two guys did a bunch of dangerous stuff you're not supposed to do at home in a house that was on track to get demolished anyway.

soap in the dishwasher. it sparks joy To Me. other honorable mentions: - the time they played an 8 hour train ride live on TV which got so popular that they played a 134 hour boat livestream later. - norwegian commercials are surprisingly high quality?? is it weird that i enjoy the norwegian commercial industry more than norwegian cinema as a whole????

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

okay i'm struggling a little with this one right now so i'm just gonna post this

20. which sport is The Sport in your country? it's soccer - or football, as we call it here. the only sports that get any attention at all whatsoever are, in descending order: - football - skiing sports such as ski jumping or ski shooting (I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS SPORT WORKS AND I DO NOT CARE TO LEARN) - handball

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"1. Breasts. 2. Jugs. 3. Cans. 4. Knockers. 5. Bongos. 6. Bubbies. 7. Bumpers. 8. Blorps. 9. BEWBZ. 10. Tits. 11. Tatas. 12. "The Twins." 13. Chesticles. 14. Chi chis. 15. Chebs. 16. Charlies. 17. Cha cha bingos. 18. Chubby chest cheeks. 19. Gazongas. 20. Kahunas. 21. Flabbergasters. 22. Titties. 23. Double lattes. 24. Golden Globes. 25. Jubblies. 26. Nunga nungas. 27. Pinch pots. 28. Headlamps. 29. Hindenburgs. 30. Honkerburgers. 31. Tittaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyysssssss-ah."

"Stop."

"32. Lady bubbles. 33. Lilyhammers. 34. Lunchables. 35. Life ruiners. 36. Mankillers. 37. Smothers Brothers. 38. Sweater stretchers. 39. Shirt saboteurs. 40. Snuggle pups. 41. Maracas. 42. Marshmallows. 43. Meat-a-ball-as. 44. Melons. 45. Milk Duds. 46. Mudflaps. 47. Liberty bells. 48. Little Rascals. 49. Bouncy castles. 50. Baby Busters."

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started rewatching lilyhammer w my parents, little steven really WENT OFF on that intro... so fucking delicious

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Tulsa King (TV series, 2023)

An aging mobster, freshly released from prison, is exiled to Oklahoma, where he makes new acquaintances and sets up in business for himself.

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Other people have pointed out that this show is very much a shinier, bigger budget, less funny and more dumbed-down "Lilyhammer", and that's pretty close to the truth. But it's also very watchable, for the most part, and really just good old-fashioned fun.

The thing it seems most reminiscent of at the moment is the massively successful Top Gun: Maverick, in that it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, or crowbar in modern and divisive politics, it simply takes tried and tested formulas of 80s and 90s action movies and TV shows and lovingly expands upon them. None of what happens here would really have been out of place in an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard, or Miami Vice, or even Dallas, it's just all executed at a slower, more grown-up, reflective and meaningful pace.

The thing that really hits you, right from the start, is that this might be the first time Sylvester Stallone has tried acting since Cop Land, 25 years ago now, and he's excellent in this, every inch a star. The rest of the cast are perfectly competent on a TV show-level, but their parts are underwritten and no-one else really stands out that much: it's Stallone's show all the way.

Morally, it's all rather repulsive, with the motivations of greed and a little bit of revenge being as deep as it gets, and the ramifications of all the crimes and murders are never dealt with at all. The question of whether these people have made the world a better or worse place through their actions is not touched upon with a bargepole, and as a result never at any time approaches the quality of even an average episode of something like Breaking Bad or The Sopranos.

On top of that, the first season is wrapped up stupidly fast, with two sets of bad guys being dealt with and resolved in such a perfunctory manner that it removes any weight from the proceedings and fails to repay the audience's investment in the story they've been following for 6 hours. The repeated use of a famous Phil Collins song in the last episode is as pointless and out of place as what others have been calling the "cocaine leprechaun" bad boss, who is memorably-acted but as shallow as a puddle and surely would seem much more at home in a recent Steven Seagal effort.

The show gets more and more unbelievable as it goes on, until the wheels fall off somewhat at the end, but for all the above, it's still a genuinely enjoyable time-waster almost all the way through. And, as I say, Stallone is startlingly good in it; just don't expect anything more than a bit of far-fetched fun.

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

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Little Steven - My Kind Of Town (From "Lilyhammer") ft. The Interstellar...