American TV tends to afraid of a lot of taboos. I am Norwegian and it is always interesting to see American remakes of Nordic movies and shows. They change anything which touches on taboo subjects. There is a great Swedish vampire movie which deals with quite a number of disturbing topics in relation to sexuality, abuse etc. The American remake did everything to avoid that any of the darker undercurrents and subjects became visible.

When American movies deal with sex it is always made into something tantalizing. Something to sell and excite. American media quickly sweep under the rug anything unpleasant.

> American TV tends to afraid of a lot of taboos

Broadcasters invest a lot of resources into a single production that they'll prize for a year or to, or even a decade if it's a hit - but as they've got a TV audience sized in the multiples-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-people that's also socially/politically/culturally polarized they won't take many chances with controversial material.

If you ignore the (largely bland, invariably unoriginal) "mass-market" media in the US and look at smaller, local and independent broadcast media in the US (back when local TV stations were a thing) you'll see more... interesting material, but the production values aren't there which makes it harder to watch.

Can you share some Norwegian adaptations of American shows so we can see how Norwegians change foreign taboos for their own purposes?

Of course, the assumption is that Norwegians will always be 100% faithful to all source material.

Let The Right One In!

The original movie was so fantastic. I assume the American remake ... wasn't.

Similar story with The Vanishing.

(I'm an American, fwiw)

Sometimes. Sometimes they're so progressive that it ruins the narrative and dramatic tension. At this point it ends up being a surprise when the terrorists aren't really a secret conspiracy run by a capitalist defense contractor or rogue domestic spy agency of some sort.

And it's always the rich widow and never the creepy janitor who ends up being the murderer. Can't "punch down"!

And they are unrealistic too. As if the wealthy would ever have private islands where they engage in pedophilic behavior.

> Sometimes they're so progressive that it ruins the narrative and dramatic tension. At this point it ends up being a surprise when the terrorists aren't really a secret conspiracy run by a capitalist defense contractor or rogue domestic spy agency of some sort.

This is a great example of being too politically correct and playing it safe.

It's such an uninspired version of Running Man/Battle Royale/Hunger Games/Hostile/Movie of your Choice from the Dystopian "Rich people watch poor people do bad stuff for their entertainment" genre.

IDK, I hate capitalism as much as anyone on this site, but UGH what a boring take.

Honestly, "You" is a much better satire on the platform right now.

The magic is in the acting around the premise, not the social commentary. It's head and shoulders above most other television right now in that regard.