I stumbled on an interesting Time-based show from Norway on HBO MAX called “BEFOREIGNERS” as in Before- mixed w/Foreigners. Wild premise:
-a time portal opens up at multiple sites around the world, and thousands of people have come through but only from 3 time periods. The show takes place in a world struggling to incorporate inhabitants from the Stone Age, Norse culture, and the 1800’s, all now living snd working in modern day Norway. It becomes a clever police procedural when a woman from Norse culture is brought on board the Oslo police department in a bid to make it “multi-temporal” and is paired with a male officer coming off sabbatical with a hidden drug problem. The scenes shown behind the credits depict life in Norway with those Beforeigners mostly failing to adapt to modernity and clinging to their old (sometimes ancient) cultures in Oslo’s city center. The seroies comments on issues of immigration and assimilation are compounded by the clash of civilizations between Norse, Neanderthal, Bohemian and Norwegian cultures.
So we’ve got a time portal; unwitting time travelers displaced and now stuck in the 21st century; a mysterious underground drug, ”time drops”; references to “time-igrants” and being “time-is” plus the added hilarity of moderns choosing to be “trans-temporal” who fake their “time-igration” and adopt ancient cultures by radical means.
And they use classic 60’s blues songs on their soundtrack, like Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City” under the opening credits, which endears the film makers to me. Beforeigners packs a lot of entertainment in it’s 6 episodes, and it’s season finale hints at further intrigue with lines like “The government wants you to think that time is a one-way street.”
HBO Europe has already picked it up for a 2nd season.
“BEFOREIGNERS” is right on Time.