

9.030 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestMagnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
Writing
Vidar Magnussen's self-deprecating creation of himself
Acting
Magnussen's committed patheticism as cosmic everyman
Practical Effects
Charming low-budget alien effects that lean into the cheap
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vidar Magnussen based Magnus on his own anxieties about imposter syndrome in Norwegian comedy circles, making this basically expensive therapy.
The show satirizes Norway's obsession with 'dugnad'—collective community effort—by showing a man spectacularly failing upward through sheer social obligation.