LILYHAMMER - STEVEN VAN ZANDT

This is the television series with three discs of all eight episodes. This is a testament to NOT letting the actor have as much control as Van Zandt appears to have had. He is actor, coproducer, cowriter, etc... Some times this goes into farce and the series isn't really equipped to handle it. What Van Zandt did in The Sopranos is not duplicated here. One of the reasons I wanted to watch it was to see the Norwegian scenery, which is well done. The Norwegians are made out to be oafish morons which was rather unpleasant. To be fair, I enjoyed a lot of it, however it was ruined by taking this into fatuousness. Three discs, eight episodes. Read more