Tore

I found the series very entertaining. These type of series are becoming more and more popular in Scandinavia - the combination of humor and drama, the complex characters, the realistic yet unrealistic struggles - and I love it.

The music score is good, the characters are complex, and the manuscript is original. I loved it, and really hope there will be an another season.

As for the actors - they did an outstanding job. I mean, all of them! First of all, William Spetz portrays this grieving, dorky, exploring character in such a good way. His girlfriend, Linn, made me laugh loudly multiple times (I loved her character), and Erik, Heidi, Tore's colleagues, Viggo, shady & Lo, and even Linn's son were great. And by great, I mean this is how Scandinacians appear, speak and act realistically (myself included). Will probably watch the whole series again sometime.

Tore is a Swedish series about the undertaker worker Tore, who is 27 and gay, but not out.

The series starts off OK, but once again a Swedish series fails when it comes to pure acting.

I wonder why they are asked to over act, like they are here. Maybe it's to pretend they are Hollywood or something, because I know too many Swedes to know this is not the way they act or react.

Main actor is is also asked to act so silly that he seemingly is 16.

Cringy and strange, and far off reality. Sad that it's like this. If we are to have series about gay persons, please let them act like normal, and not this cringy.

I think the only reason I got through this was because the episodes were each just thirty minutes long. Even so, this story about a twenty seven year old gay virgin didn't convince.

OK it's billed as a comedy but also a drama and the dramatic bits aren't feasible. Falling out of a window and lying outside in the snow all night results in death not a black eye. Nutting a concrete pillar hard causes worse injuries to a person than a mere trickle of blood.

As for the love interest, what hot-blooded guy on a mission to have his first time would choose boring, older Erik over exciting, horny, hot Viggo?

The actor playing Tore, who also wrote the script, looks about 18 and acts it too. His IMDB bio says his height is five foot eleven. If that's true, Viggo and Erik must be giants - they both tower over him.

As for the trippy flights of fancy, I also, like Heidi, didn't waste the 60s! These sequences have nothing to do with the effects of Tore's "tea"; they are a bad imagining of the effects that have nothing to do with reality.

The final episode was just cringe making and impossible to believe, both the section in the club and later in Uppsala.

I know that William Spetz is well regarded in Sweden but he must have been having an off day when he wrote this.

Tore hits you right in the heart. It takes you to the ups and mostly downs that happen.

Tore is about a guy named tore that is 27 years old and still lives with his dad. He barely has any life experience and almost lives through his best friend. Suddenly his dad dies and the base is gone for him, he suddenly needs find who he is and deal with his grief. Which goes messy to say the least.

The pain, emotions and confusing is grabbing you through the screen. The acting makes the story that is already amazing even better. The acting is believable and really makes you feel for the characters, for all of them.

You should absolutely watch it. Although it can be emotionally draining it is absolutely worth it. So go watch I would say!

Normally I don't write reviews, but this series unexpectedly touched me so much.

The storyline and characters did such a good job in showing the complexity of loss and pain. The strange choices we make and the behaviour we show whilst not saying or expressing what we really want or need.

I read someone saying it's overacting, but to me it was precisely perfect. There's a lot of meaning in the things unsaid. If that makes sense. Like when you're supposed to get a comforting touch but you didn't.

I think anyone struggling with loss, drugs, sexuality and self-love(or self destructive behaviour) will recognise something in this series.