SKAM OG

This page containsinformation about original Skam\*, similarities, and differences between it and Skam España, etc.

\*Sometimes reffered to as Skam OG, to indicate that it's the first and original Skam

## What is Skam?

**Skam** (English: **Shame**) is a Norwegian teen drama web series about the daily life of teenagers at the Hartvig Nissen School, in Oslo. Each season has a new main character. Content (Clips, social media posts, texts) was published in real-time on the website daily. Original Skam has 4 seasons and 43 episodes.

## Format

At the start of a week, a clip, conversation or social media post is posted on the *Skam* *website*. New material is posted on a daily basis, with the content unified and combined into one full episode on Fridays. The main character differs from season to season, and the fictional characters have social media profiles where viewers can follow their activities.

## Seasons

### Season 1

The central character is *Eva Mohn*. Season deals with Eva's loneliness, identity, belonging as well as relationship with her boyfriend *Jonas Vasquez*.

### Season 2

The central character is *Noora Amalie Sætre*. Season deals with issues of eating disorders, sexual assault, feminism, focuses on Noora's relationship with *William Magnusson*.

### Season 3

The central character is *Isak Valtersen*. Season deals with Isak's relationship with *Even Bech Næsheim*, issues of mental illness, sexual identity.

### Season 4

The central character is *Sana Bakkoush*. Season deals with Islam, forbidden love, cyberbullying, friendship.

## Characters

### Central

1. *Eva Kviig Mohn*
2. *Noora Amalie Sætre*
3. *Isak Valtersen*
4. *Sana Bakkoush*

### Recurring Characters

* *Vilde Lien Hellerud*
* *Chris Berg*
* *Jonas Noah Vasquez*
* *William Magnusson*
* *Even Bech Næsheim*
* *Yousef Acar*
* *Magnus Fossbakken*
* *Mahdi Disi*
* *Christoffer Schistad*
* *Ingrid Theis Gaupseth*
* *Eskild Tryggvasson*
* *Linn Larsen Hansen*

### Minor Characters

* *Iben Sandberg*
* *Jamilla Bikarim*
* *Nikolai Magnusson*
* *Mari*
* *Emma W. Larzen*
* *Sonja*
* *Elias Bakkoush*
* *Mikael Øverlie Boukhal*
* *Mutasim Tatouti*
* *Adam Malik*

## Adaptations of Skam

After the success of the original norwegian show, many countries decided to make their own remakes of it.

### Current remakes:

* Skam France
* Druck (Germany)
* wtFOCK (Belgium)

### Former remakes (ended or canceled):

* Skam España (Spain) (Ended after four seasons)
* Skam Italia (Italy) (Ended after four seasons)
* Skam NL (Netherlands) (Canceled after two seasons)
* Skam Austin (United States) (Canceled after two seasons)

### In production:

* ROCHE PE (Peru)\*
* Skam MX (Mexico)\*

\*Skam Peru and Skam Mexico are projects created by students who are also fans of the original series.

## Differences between Skam and Skam España

### Characters

#### Skam OG characters and their spanish iterations

* Eva Kviig Mohn (OG) / Eva Vázquez (Skam España)
* Chris Berg (OG) / Cris Soto (Skam España)
* Noora Amalie Sætre (OG) / Nora Grace (Skam España)
* Vilde Lien Hellerud (OG) / Viri Gómez (Skam España)
* Sana Bakkoush (OG) / Amira Naybet (Skam España)
* Isak Valtersen (OG) / Lucas Rubio (Skam España)
* Jonas Vasquez (OG) / Jorge Crespo (Skam España)
* Even Bech Næsheim (OG) / Joana Bianchi (Skam España)
* William Magnusson (OG) / Alejandro Beltrán (Skam España)
* Magnus Fossbakken (OG) / Hugo Centeno (Skam España)
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### Seasons

#### Season 1

* Lara has the same introduction as *Noora* in OG.
* Boy Squad was introduced in episode 1.
* Viri, Lara, Nora are the new students.
* Cris and Amira are childhood friends.
* Nora lives with her parents.
* Jorge was hanging out with Inés not because he wanted to get some weed from her brother. Inés's brother makes a fake ID, Jorge wanted to give one to Eva for her birthday.
* It wasn't Lucas who told everyone about the fact that Eva and Cristian kissed. It was Viri.
* Lucas came out to Eva, he told her that he's gay and she told him about the kiss with Cristian.

#### Season 2

* Skam España switched the order of seasons. It's an *"Isak"* character season, not *"Noora's"*.
* Skam España gave *Isak's storyline* to *"Chris"* character, aka to Cris Soto.
* Lucas has the role of *Eskild* and Amira has the role of *Jonas*.
* Rubén (*Emma character*) is a friend of Cris's brother, Dani.
* Joana and Eloy were dating for a short period of time. Joana actually broke up with Eloy and didn't lie about it
* Joana has borderline personality disorder, not bipolar disorder.
* The cuddling scene happens in episode 6, not episode 5.
* Joana told Cris about her mental illness by herself. In OG it was *Sonja* who told *Isak* about *Even's* illness.
* Alejandro developed genuine feelings for Nora.

#### Season 3

* Season 3 of Skam España had an original plot.
* Nora and Alejandro started dating before events of Season 3.
* Miquel is an original character, but some of his scenes were paralleles to *William* and *Nikolai* scenesfrom OG.

### Easter eggs/References to Skam OG

* Nora once mentioned Los Losers in a text, when girls were trying to rename their whatsapp group. In OG, Los Losers is other nickname of the Girl Squad and the name of their russ bus.
* Boy Squad had a "bathroom scene" in 2x01, the same scene happend in OG. and opened Isak's season.
* In 2x01, during the "bathroom scene" Lucas, Jorge, Hugo and Dilan talked about capital of Norway, Oslo.
* In 2x04, Eva calls herself a Penetrator Eva which is a slight nod towards Christoffer Schistad, who had a nickname Penetrator Chris. The Penetrators is also a name of russ bus members, of which were William and P-Chris.
* Joana recreated "the boy who couldn't hold his breath underwater" video for Cris's birthday. [Even's video], [Joana's video]
* In 3x02, Nora and Miquel went to the bookshop, a photo of which, Noora Sætre had as a header on Facebook. In the same episode Miquel gave Nora a bag with "elsker" printed on it. "Elsker" means "love" in nNrwegian.
* In 3x07 (Saturday, 21:22 Viri's clip) Joana and Cris dressed up like Zeus and Julius Caesar, the same costumes Even and Isak wore the night they had their first kiss.