Swedish soaps

[BoldBeauty]

We only have ONE soap left now, called "Andra Avenyn" (Second Avenue) which features lots of young people. I don´t watch this soaps but I know it´s about a few families that live outside Gothenburg and lots of them have immigrant-backgrounds.

Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esVT4XWV0dY

But there´s been classical soaps in Sweden too. Some of them.........

Rederiet

Primetime-soaps featuring the crew on a ferryboat going between Sweden-Finland. Also about the Dahlén family who owns the shipping company that owns the boat Freja where most of the show takes place. Lots of drama, intrigue etc like on all soaps.

Mel Gibson doing a funny scetch about joining Rederiet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GCWvQqpSRo

And the very classic themesong taken from the last episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUKg9T66KgE

Tre Kronor (Three Crowns)

Featuring families on a family-friendly street, lots of teens growing up together and their parents who has their own storylines.

Most memorable scenes:

The basketball-team in tragic accident... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqY6q1VdFk

A broke desperate father robs the bank and shoots his own son in front of his wife... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Qtmq6Mz7c

Crazy sektleader Sten blows up the Tre Kronor building with everyone inside... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IvjefpFbc

Skilda Världar (Seperate worlds)

Started out as a 5-days-per-week soap but ended up as a once-a-week show. About 2 families, one rich and one poor. The daughter in the rich family was the twin-sister of the eldest son from the poor family. Seperated at birth.

Recap + opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eupavfpt7YQ

Varuhuset (The Mall)

Classic soap from the 1980s featuring the leadership & staff of Öhman's mall.

Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l684VDSR4c

Vita Lögner (White Lies)

Soap featuring the staff at a hospital plus their families.

Intro 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpdzoIvUBkg

Intro 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpKxOxQ4a0I

Vänner >< Fiender (Friends >< Enemies)

Featuring 3 young women who grew up together, and their lives and families lives in a small town.

Nya Tider (New Times)

Featuring as always, feuding families & their friends and collaegues. A kind of Romeo & Juliet story with the daughter from the rich dysfunctional family and the son of a divided poor family. However, after a couple of seasons the guy dies in a carcrash her father was not really innocent of and she goes from being kind and naive to becoming more selfish and tough.

Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iJmgiVbdEg

The show's best cliffhanger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmRyhX3a6c

[Andrew]

1. Andra Avenyn, sucks horrible soap.

2. Rederiet was great, the first years. Loved the Elenor/Beatrice storyline, Psycho Emelie who kidnapped Karl, Psycho Jeanette who went crazy when Carl and hers daughter died and tried to kill him, bitchy Renate,Funny Joker & Uno, such a great soap, but went bad the last years, also loved funny Gustav and sometimes Bitchy Katarina Remmer.

3. Tre Kronor, was really bad, sometimes funny, with Kotten & Janet.

4. Skilda Värdar, if Rebecca (first played by Jesscia Zanden, later Nina Gunke), hadn`t been in the cast, the soap would have sucked, but Rebecca who was always scheeming was rather fun to see.

5. Varuhuset, great soap, Margareta was great.

6. Vita Lögner, i watched when i was younger, really dosen`t remember much, rather good i think.

7. Vänner och Fiender, i remember watching it, but really cant remember much, rather good i think.

8. Nya Tider, was sometimes good and sometimes really bad.

Thanks for writing about this, Tack!.............

[BoldBeauty]

All these soaps got bad at the end. That´s where experiments get you!!

But my favorites.....

1. Rederiet - the classic. Was really awesome the first 5 years and got bad the next 4 years only to end pretty decent for its last year.

2. Varuhuset - I can´t remember if this show actually got bad at the end. Such a classic 80s soap.

3. Vita Lögner - Loved it for several seasons until it got bad.

4. Nya Tider - Also loved it the first few seasons, but then they fired half the cast and brought in new people and it got completely wrecked. I couldn´t stand it after that.

4. Skilda Världar - Awesome first few seasons here too. But then it just lost its touch when they re-casted Rebecka. Jessica Zandén MADE that role.

5. Vänner & Fiender - Same as above. Great first few seasons, then it got horribly bad when they got rid of most the original cast and replaced with new. I cannot stand that.

6. Tre Kronor - Loved it at first, then it got so pathetic. But I never stopped liking the character Reine - a soap classic!

7. Andra Avenyn - Just seen parts of it, and it just doesn´t do anything for me at all.

I´ve watched all except Andra Avenyn, and loved all those (except Andra Avenyn) It´s too bad they have to screw the soaps up. If it aint broke, don´t try to fix it!!!

[te.]

I loved Vita Lögner - it was a shame that it was handled so badly by the network. I didn't think it got "bad", but obviously there were seasons that were better than the last ones. The interesting thing is that they seemed to do more location shots towards the end of it instead of in studio. The last few episodes were so good too!

Tre Kronor was over the top and towards the end it just got waaay out of hand. And you always felt bad for Birgitta who always seemed to have bad things happen to her - quite the opposite of the actress role on Varuhuset!

I watched Vänner><Fiender the seasons it was on tv3. It was rather good - I even remember buying the cd single of the theme song and playing it to death at a friends' house!

Skilda Världar as a weekly soap just didn't work. They seemed to try and go for a more "serious" drama approach, the last few episodes seemed like they went back to the trashy roots with Rebecka getting her comeuppance. One of the few shows that actually seemed to get a "real" ending!

Also, it might be worth to mention that this was the Swedish version of Australian 80s show Brothers & Sisters.

Nya Tider got an awesome season finale before half the cast was fired and they tried to turn it into a "serious" drama. It was really weird actually. It was like they were "well, we might as well go all out before we turn dull!".

Edit: here it is!

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And yeah, Andra Avenyn is just straight down horrible. Which is too bad as it's the first time in eons anyone invested in a Swedish soap after the messes that were Ocean Ave and Hotel Seger.

[Marley]

My favorite was "Varuhuset". What was his name, Pelikanen? I still can't remember the storyline properly but that particularly storyline scared me senseless when I was little.

I was completely obsessed with "Skilda Världar" and I really don't know why because the acting sucked for the most part except Jessica Zandén. I was highly intrigued by twins getting it on though.

So many memories, I loved Tom, hated Daniel (who was played by one of the worst actors I think I've ever seen on a soap)

Tre Kronor was good as well and I'll never forget them naming that baby River

ETA: What was the name of the norwegian soap that TV4 used to show 8 years ago or so?