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After trying to find a good watch for Christmas, this is, after the usual US cliche bs which made nearly my eyes fall out from all the eyerolling, finally a nice little series with believable and likeable characters and story.

Yes it's possible, a good story without time traveling knights and laughtracks.

Thank you Norway.

It's fun and light hearted, just how Christmas should be

I am so happy I found this! Its Scandinavian (Norwegian) short series about a girl and the pressure that is being put on her. She is 30 and "boyfriendless", which in her families eyes means that she is incomplete. The quest to prove to her family that she is "normal" and has a boyfriend by the family Christmas dinner time begins!

There is clearly the "Love actually" influence there and you better love that movie too!

The ending will leave you restless! I hope Netflix will create more European series/movies like this!

p.s. dear English speaking people - please watch this with original sound and subtitles, not dubbed. Sincerely, you need to learn another language ;)

Such a beautiful, sad, happy, cracy and unexpected story. I loved it! One to watch! Well done Norway <3

The series is basically a one lady show, who is, as a friend of her said: "lovely, weird, funny, crazy, most unpredictable, naive and romantic in the entirety of planet Earth". Johanne's role is so well played that it's difficult not to laugh, cry, suffer, enjoy, feel depressed together with her. Ida Elise Broch, as well as the script, are superb.

Judging by the title I supposed that it was another christmas comedy. Nevertheless, the whole plot was about Johanne and her attempts to find a suitable boyfriend (at first just for not to be alone at christmas). The nice story has some cliches but it's funny and with great acting for a comedy. And that counts for first and secondary roles too. It's not a revelation, it's not the most original script ever, but it's well written and properly directed. I would fully recommend it. I even enjoyed the language. It was something different to listen to. I binged watched it asap. Have fun.

A very beautiful work, with everyday situations. Funny, romantic, smart and delicate. It's a 10 from me, looking forward for season two!

Fresh, clever and authentic. This is a modern take on a 30-year single woman figuring what she wants from life while navigating through social pressure, expectations and norms. Packed with witty, charming and unexpected moments, this is a true gem for Christmas. I utterly enjoyed every single minute.

After have seen all episodes, and the expectations slowly were built up, it felt like an anti climax..... All of you, who have seen the last episode knows what I meen. 🙁

Normally I would have given it 7/10, but watching it in the xmas spirit, and in particular compared with most of the American garbage xmas movies and series, I increased the rating to 8. As someone from a non-Christian culture, I truly enjoyed watching the original, traditional warmth that I felt in this series as compared with all the commercial fake xmas I feel in the North America. As someone who has never bern able to relate to the North American style xmas celebration, I have to admit this series gave me the cozy warm feeling I have always felt since childhood in our new year celebrations... The warmth of something traditional and way way more original than just pushing people to go to the mall. In this sense, I really loved this series.

In addition, I also appreciate it very much that unlike the mainstream North American series and movies (especially the Christmas ones) that keep emphasizing on how sad and needy and incomplete single women above a certain age are and they'd be happy only upon clinging to a man, this one tries to show that a woman, as is, is enough for herself and must not let all the social pressure and family expectations push her to settle on something that doesn't make her happy. I love how it shows that Johanna, despite all her doubts in herself, all her ups and downs, all her occasional bending when it comes to family pressure, does not settle for something less than what she deserves. I love her very normal realistic character, having her weak moments, melt downs, relying on friends and family at times of need, but at the same time being an independent reliable person in the lives of her family, friends, colleagues, and her patients. I love that despite all the occasional moments of feeling weak or like a loser, she eventually uses her support network to dry her tears and goes back on her feet. It is sooooo like the opposite of the American mainstream garbage advertises. I love how in the first episode it emphasizes how single people are ignored by all the commercial culture (no xmas set edition of pyjamas for singles, just couples and family).

Moreover, I also enjoyed the very real sense of humour and sensible jokes in the series.

All in all, nothing very deep or extraordinary, but a great light happy "right" choice for Christmas season, especially a Christmas like this one with all the COVID-related restrictions.

I just spent pretty much a whole day binging on this Netflix original during the lockdown here. Wow! This is a brilliant Christmas TV series. I had fun watching this one. The acting was great, and the story was wonderful to watch on screen. I laughed a lot. Plus, it is just great watching something from a Nordic country. A bit different humour. Well done!

Superb funny story with twist in the end that. twist are not the twist you are waiting for.

Home for Christmas is a good story with a lot of believable characters with faults, including the main character. You can definitely see that the writers have taken their time with the backstories of the characters, that slowly surface during the season

At some time it felt like the series had too many characters for such a short season, and ends up feeling a bit rushed, throwing the protagonist from character to character. However, the series is still well worth a watch and I'm looking forward to season 2.

I watched it all in one sit. I found myself laughing and crying with this show... I could relate to the protagonist so much and I was laughing out loud at times, just because some stuff is so genuine! I'm in love with this show, because I'm her age, recently relocated to a new country and I'm going through the same "putting yourself out there" phase, and it's so amusing to see a TV show that portraits that so well without being cheesy, the ups and downs of dating and being single. I highly recommend it!!!

Seems the lead role is a sweet and kind woman, although she has lots of tattoos of knife through skull and more. I think the series is a bit awkward at times, but also touching, sweet and funny. The men she dates are quite hopeless, but in some ways I think the film tries to say that noone is perfect and we all have our demons and stuff that we try to hide away and that we hope someone can love despite of. In the end we get a lesson about seeing the qualities of all the good people around us.

Actually quite good and charming. Norwegian feel good. The dubbed version is awful

Love the first season..is good to watch series from a country that is not the us. But the second season didn't have the same energy

I usually skip over subtitled TV shows but I got so into the characters and the story I almost forgot I was reading while watching! This is charming, quirky, and heartfelt series. The ending - WOW! I gasped. I NEED TO KNOW!!

Johanna is pressured by absolutely everyone to couple up, breed, and live the same dull life as every one else.

The least they could do is get some farm animals or baubles in exchange for their daughter.