Multiple award-winning comedy drama about Pørni who juggles the chaos of work, family, and her own needs as a selfless yet flawed child protective services worker navigating love, loss, and late-life crises.
Pørni – short for Pernilla - is the mother you wish you were, or had, but with the job nobody wants, which nonetheless is crucially important. Pørni is a woman who puts everyone else first and doesn’t always make the right choices for her.
Pørni works for the child protective service. Her 19-year-old daughter Hanna doesn’t want to move out and spends all her savings on expensive holidays with her friends, instead of a language course in Argentina. Pørni also has a 12-year-old who believes that her father left them because living with Pørni was a nightmare. Sigrid believes this because Pørni allows her to, mainly because she doesn’t want her daughter to know that her father is a nitwit. Which he is. Pørni is also responsible for her teenage nephew Leo and her father, who lives upstairs and is having something of a late-life crisis.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Duration
6 x 30'
Language
Norwegian
Cast
Henriette Steenstrup, Vivild Falk Berg, Ebba Jacobsen Östberg, Nils Ole Oftebro, Henrik Mestad, Ulrikke Døvigen, Agnes Kittelsen, Jan Gunnar Røise, Gunnar Eiriksson, Deniz Kaya, Vivild Marie Falk Berg, Ebba Jacobsen Öberg, Jon Ranes
Director
Gunnar Vikene, Charlotte Blom
Scriptwriter
Henriette Steenstrup
Production Company
Monster
Producer
Bård Fjulsrud, Ida Håndlykken Kvernstrøm
Production Year
2022
Awards
Nominated
Best Non-English Drama Series
C21 Drama Awards 2023
Returning Comedy-Drama Series
C21 Drama Awards 2023
Won
Best Drama, Best Script, Best Actress
Gullruten 2022