sofia I absolutely love this show! I can relate so much to it, with my mother being like Emma (swedish )and my father being like Bruce(very traditional and American). This show perfectly captures what Sweden is really like! I would love a third seasons considering they leave the show on a cliff-hanger with Emma being pregnant.

katanaknights Wedding planning.The show quickly runs out of clichés of Sweden and season 2 is just another show about wedding planning. The proposal, the bachelor party, the bachelorette party, telling the parents, wedding preparations, booking a place, meeting the priest, flying in the parents, etc. It's been done a million times - this show does it yet again.There are no jokes left in this theme - everything has been said and done before. There is no new ground to cover. Why do it? Did Greg pitch a show about Sweden, get the OK, then run out of ideas and said "screw it, let's just make a wedding show?" For one, you can't make a show based on "In America we do this, in Europe they do that." It's barely good enough for standup comedy lines, not for whole episodes or a whole show.And to run out of those ideas and just make a show about planning a wedding called "Welcome to Sweden?" The jokes are just not funny "Oh, female priest? My worldview is collapsing." "You should take my name," "No, you should take my name" or "It should be Evans-Wiik" "No, it should be Wiik-Evans." Some of the ideas seem to be lifted straight from "Marry Me" - the surprise party ruined by the bride going on an insult rant while everyone is waiting to come out.Just terrible. There may be 5 minutes of comedy gold in 2 seasons of 10 episodes each.

carsenal Welcome to Sweden shows a lot of Swedish stereotypes and although it's very accurate, it's not very funny. It's just droll, amusing, but not laugh out loud funny. It is a TV show equivalent of Youtube video "20 things Koreans do" or "You know you're Serbian when..." lists that were very popular on the internet many years ago.This is exactly that. Jokes like declined credit card/forgotten wallet, him blurting out to airport security that he smokes weed sometimes or awkwardly joking to the Swedish DMV lady if the driver's license charge comes with a happy ending. Then there's a bunch of celebrity cameos (Gene Simmons, Will Ferrell, etc) chasing him to do their taxes. His big adjustment issues are street signs that say "farthinder", driving with a stick or the name "Sigsten" which sounds like "six and ten" - barrels of laughs.Some of the stuff is just poor. The protagonist is a New Yorker of 10 years and he wants to say "hello" and "how are you" to everyone he meets, neighbours, random people on the street, and he says he actually cares what the answer is. He actually attempts to strike up a conversation with a homeless person for some reason or another. He is ignored by neighbours. A New Yorker from the city of hugs doesn't get why Swedes keep to themselves. That makes no sense.There is an episode that is centred around the theme of his girlfriend being un-photogenic. Every time someone attempts to take a photo, she makes a strange face. This goes on for a while.There's enough jokes in the show for about 2 or 3 top notch episodes, but there isn't 2 seasons worth of comedy. The lame jokes should just be thrown out - his sister's brother dressed in cycling clothing but he cannot ride a bike. The protagonist gets a job as a tour guide on a boat, feels sea sick, has people speaking to him in foreign languages, doesn't answer, vomits and gets fired. That's supposed to be funny.There's not enough comedy in the show to be considered a comedy. Big budget shows like these should hire more writers to write jokes and not try to stretch droll anecdotes into a comedy series.

integr8d Though fairly libertarian myself, if you fancy yourself a liberal and need/want your political, social and economic views validated with every other line of a TV show, honey, you've come home.I just watched an episode that deals with female priests, the tradition of fathers walking their daughters down the isle being verboten because of what it symbolizes, a higher power largely not being believed in, the death penalty and so many other cat nip issues it was hard to keep track.That it was an NBC show is not surprising in the least. So if you want to stream a series that's 'cute' and are either largely decided in your views or insensitive / incognizant of the fact that ideology is being shoveled into your brain hole, this is a humor'ish way to pass the time.