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Known as ''Næturvaktin'' (2007-) in its native Icelandic, ''The Night Shift'' is a workplace sitcom chronicling life at a gas station's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin night shift]]. The setting is very limited, taking place almost exclusively at the gas station itself or a nearby drive-through.
On the surface, the show is about the boss from hell making the two timid employees under his command miserable in absurd and ridiculous ways. Underneath the surface, however, the characters have a surprising amount of depth and realism, and in the end the series is as much a slowly unfolding character study as a comedy.
The principal cast consists of:
''Georg Bjarnfreðarson'' - At a glance, simply the boss from hell. He torments his underlings relentlessly through insisting on enforcing inane bureaucratic procedures, dishing out seemingly innocuous but cruel punishments for minor offenses, and being passive-aggressive. Later in the series he turns out to be an impressively RoundedCharacter with an elaborate backstory and [[FreudianExcuse childhood issues]] that reveal his behaviour to be surprisingly well-founded in realistic psychological complexes.
''Daníel Sævarsson'' - A medical school drop-out who applies for a job at the gas station at the beginning of the series as he tries to find himself. Very shy, introverted and an ExtremeDoormat, he mostly tolerates Georg's abuse quietly.
''Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson'' - Shares given names with the president of Iceland, which is part of the comedy of his character being a rather naive, simplistic loser whose attempts to be a cool cat are laughably pathetic. He manages a band in his free time, but [[{{Understatement}} isn't very good at it]]. He has been working at the gas station longer than Georg, but is still on the receiving end of the worst of his abuse, and though he occasionally protests, Georg's overbearing manner is quick to shut him up.
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy.
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!!Tropes used in all three TV series and the movie include:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Georg kills Gugga in self-defense when she makes sexual advances on him.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Daníel.
* CerebusSyndrome: At the start it's a sitcom about some guys working at a gas station with a horrible boss. The second series has [[RapeAsDrama rape]] and [[AccidentalMurder murder]], ''not'' played for laughs. The third takes place in prison. The movie's main plot is a full-blown exploration of how abused children go on to abuse ''their'' children, the lasting consequences of such abuse, and how the characters find themselves in life. It never stops being funny and the characters had depth from the beginning, but the focus shifts considerably towards the drama side.
* CharacterTitle: The movie is called ''Bjarnfreðarson'', referring to Georg's last name. Notably, last names in Icelandic aren't used the way last names in English are, so the use of his last name (a matronym) symbolizes the way that Georg is defined by being the son of his mother.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. [[spoiler: Óli is raped several times by a drunken Gugga in ''Dagvaktin''; he does his best to pretend he's fine and it was no big deal, but it obviously screws him up, and once Daníel has gotten drunk enough to have the courage to talk about it, he identifies it as being rape and is appropriately horrified.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Daníel.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Georg tends to be this.
* MommasBoy: Georg.
* MushroomSamba: One episode of ''Dagvaktin''.
* MyBelovedSmother: Bjarnfreður to Georg.
* NewSeasonNewName: Season two of ''Næturvaktin'' is called ''Dagvaktin''; season three is called ''Fangavaktin''.
* SnowballLie: In ''Dagvaktin'', Georg lies that [[spoiler: Gugga was killed by Daníel, not him]] and gets Daníel to help him with the cover-up under the pretense of helping him.
* StealthInsult: Georg loves to 'encourage' people on the basis that they're of 'average intellect'.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: He's not a foreigner, but Georg supposedly has five university degrees from Sweden... and yet he works at a gas station.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: Bjarnfreður was bummed, and so by extension was Georg.
On the surface, the show is about the boss from hell making the two timid employees under his command miserable in absurd and ridiculous ways. Underneath the surface, however, the characters have a surprising amount of depth and realism, and in the end the series is as much a slowly unfolding character study as a comedy.
The principal cast consists of:
''Georg Bjarnfreðarson'' - At a glance, simply the boss from hell. He torments his underlings relentlessly through insisting on enforcing inane bureaucratic procedures, dishing out seemingly innocuous but cruel punishments for minor offenses, and being passive-aggressive. Later in the series he turns out to be an impressively RoundedCharacter with an elaborate backstory and [[FreudianExcuse childhood issues]] that reveal his behaviour to be surprisingly well-founded in realistic psychological complexes.
''Daníel Sævarsson'' - A medical school drop-out who applies for a job at the gas station at the beginning of the series as he tries to find himself. Very shy, introverted and an ExtremeDoormat, he mostly tolerates Georg's abuse quietly.
''Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson'' - Shares given names with the president of Iceland, which is part of the comedy of his character being a rather naive, simplistic loser whose attempts to be a cool cat are laughably pathetic. He manages a band in his free time, but [[{{Understatement}} isn't very good at it]]. He has been working at the gas station longer than Georg, but is still on the receiving end of the worst of his abuse, and though he occasionally protests, Georg's overbearing manner is quick to shut him up.
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy.
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!!Tropes used in all three TV series and the movie include:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Georg kills Gugga in self-defense when she makes sexual advances on him.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Daníel.
* CerebusSyndrome: At the start it's a sitcom about some guys working at a gas station with a horrible boss. The second series has [[RapeAsDrama rape]] and [[AccidentalMurder murder]], ''not'' played for laughs. The third takes place in prison. The movie's main plot is a full-blown exploration of how abused children go on to abuse ''their'' children, the lasting consequences of such abuse, and how the characters find themselves in life. It never stops being funny and the characters had depth from the beginning, but the focus shifts considerably towards the drama side.
* CharacterTitle: The movie is called ''Bjarnfreðarson'', referring to Georg's last name. Notably, last names in Icelandic aren't used the way last names in English are, so the use of his last name (a matronym) symbolizes the way that Georg is defined by being the son of his mother.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. [[spoiler: Óli is raped several times by a drunken Gugga in ''Dagvaktin''; he does his best to pretend he's fine and it was no big deal, but it obviously screws him up, and once Daníel has gotten drunk enough to have the courage to talk about it, he identifies it as being rape and is appropriately horrified.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Daníel.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Georg tends to be this.
* MommasBoy: Georg.
* MushroomSamba: One episode of ''Dagvaktin''.
* MyBelovedSmother: Bjarnfreður to Georg.
* NewSeasonNewName: Season two of ''Næturvaktin'' is called ''Dagvaktin''; season three is called ''Fangavaktin''.
* SnowballLie: In ''Dagvaktin'', Georg lies that [[spoiler: Gugga was killed by Daníel, not him]] and gets Daníel to help him with the cover-up under the pretense of helping him.
* StealthInsult: Georg loves to 'encourage' people on the basis that they're of 'average intellect'.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: He's not a foreigner, but Georg supposedly has five university degrees from Sweden... and yet he works at a gas station.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: Bjarnfreður was bummed, and so by extension was Georg.
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On the surface, the show is about the boss from hell making the two timid employees under his command miserable in absurd and ridiculous ways. Underneath the surface, however, the characters have a surprising amount of depth and realism, and in the end the series is as much a slowly unfolding character study as a comedy.
The principal cast consists of:
''Georg Bjarnfreðarson'' - At a glance, simply the boss from hell. He torments his underlings relentlessly through insisting on enforcing inane bureaucratic procedures, dishing out seemingly innocuous but cruel punishments for minor offenses, and being passive-aggressive. Later in the series he turns out to be an impressively RoundedCharacter with an elaborate backstory and [[FreudianExcuse childhood issues]] that reveal his behaviour to be surprisingly well-founded in realistic psychological complexes.
''Daníel Sævarsson'' - A medical school drop-out who applies for a job at the gas station at the beginning of the series as he tries to find himself. Very shy, introverted and an ExtremeDoormat, he mostly tolerates Georg's abuse quietly.
''Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson'' - Shares given names with the president of Iceland, which is part of the comedy of his character being a rather naive, simplistic loser whose attempts to be a cool cat are laughably pathetic. He manages a band in his free time, but [[{{Understatement}} isn't very good at it]]. He has been working at the gas station longer than Georg, but is still on the receiving end of the worst of his abuse, and though he occasionally protests, Georg's overbearing manner is quick to shut him up.
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy.
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!!Tropes used in all three TV series and the movie include:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Georg kills Gugga in self-defense when she makes sexual advances on him.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Daníel.
* CerebusSyndrome: At the start it's a sitcom about some guys working at a gas station with a horrible boss. The second series has [[RapeAsDrama rape]] and [[AccidentalMurder murder]], ''not'' played for laughs. The third takes place in prison. The movie's main plot is a full-blown exploration of how abused children go on to abuse ''their'' children, the lasting consequences of such abuse, and how the characters find themselves in life. It never stops being funny and the characters had depth from the beginning, but the focus shifts considerably towards the drama side.
* CharacterTitle: The movie is called ''Bjarnfreðarson'', referring to Georg's last name. Notably, last names in Icelandic aren't used the way last names in English are, so the use of his last name (a matronym) symbolizes the way that Georg is defined by being the son of his mother.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. [[spoiler: Óli is raped several times by a drunken Gugga in ''Dagvaktin''; he does his best to pretend he's fine and it was no big deal, but it obviously screws him up, and once Daníel has gotten drunk enough to have the courage to talk about it, he identifies it as being rape and is appropriately horrified.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Daníel.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Georg tends to be this.
* MommasBoy: Georg.
* MushroomSamba: One episode of ''Dagvaktin''.
* MyBelovedSmother: Bjarnfreður to Georg.
* NewSeasonNewName: Season two of ''Næturvaktin'' is called ''Dagvaktin''; season three is called ''Fangavaktin''.
* SnowballLie: In ''Dagvaktin'', Georg lies that [[spoiler: Gugga was killed by Daníel, not him]] and gets Daníel to help him with the cover-up under the pretense of helping him.
* StealthInsult: Georg loves to 'encourage' people on the basis that they're of 'average intellect'.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: He's not a foreigner, but Georg supposedly has five university degrees from Sweden... and yet he works at a gas station.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: Bjarnfreður was bummed, and so by extension was Georg.
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The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would [[{{Americanitis}} turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy]].
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The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would [[{{Americanitis}} turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy]].
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''Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson'' - Shares given names with the president of Iceland, which is part of the comedy of his character being a rather naive, simplistic loser whose attempts to be a cool cat are laughably pathetic. He manages a band in his free time, but [[Understatement isn't very good at it]]. He has been working at the gas station longer than Georg, but is still on the receiving end of the worst of his abuse, and though he occasionally protests, Georg's overbearing manner is quick to shut him up.
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would [[Americanitis turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy]].
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would [[Americanitis turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy]].
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''Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson'' - Shares given names with the president of Iceland, which is part of the comedy of his character being a rather naive, simplistic loser whose attempts to be a cool cat are laughably pathetic. He manages a band in his free time, but [[Understatement [[{{Understatement}} isn't very good at it]]. He has been working at the gas station longer than Georg, but is still on the receiving end of the worst of his abuse, and though he occasionally protests, Georg's overbearing manner is quick to shut him up.
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would[[Americanitis [[{{Americanitis}} turn Georg into a survivalist and Daníel into a playboy]].
The series enjoyed enormous success in Iceland and was followed by two sequel series, ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift'') and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Jail Shift''), before being wrapped up with a movie, ''Bjarnfreðarson''. All the sequels have a considerably less limited setting than the first series. In May 2011, the series started airing subtitled on BBC Four. A possible American remake has also been discussed, which would
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* WhyWereBummedCommunismFell: Bjarnfreður was bummed, and so by extension was Georg.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. [[spoiler: Óli is raped several times by a drunken Gugga in ''Dagvaktin''; he does his best to pretend he's fine and it was no big deal, but it obviously screws him up, and once Daníel has gotten drunk enough to have the courage to talk about it, he identifies it as being rape and is appropriately horrified.]]
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* RapeIsOKWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted. [[spoiler: Óli is raped several times by a drunken Gugga in ''Dagvaktin''; he does his best to pretend he's fine and it was no big deal, but it obviously screws him up, and once Daníel has gotten drunk enough to have the courage to talk about it, he identifies it as being rape and is appropriately horrified.]]
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Known as ''Næturvaktin'' in its native Icelandic, ''The Night Shift'' is a workplace sitcom chronicling life at a gas station's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin night shift]]. The setting is very limited, taking place almost exclusively at the gas station itself or a nearby drive-through.
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Known as ''Næturvaktin'' (2007-) in its native Icelandic, ''The Night Shift'' is a workplace sitcom chronicling life at a gas station's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin night shift]]. The setting is very limited, taking place almost exclusively at the gas station itself or a nearby drive-through.
