I remember an early routine that comedian Steve Coogan used to do when he pretended to be a foreign film actor whose dialogue was badly dubbed. Somehow he could make his lips move when nothing came out and, more impressively, he could make words come out when his lips were tightly shut. I was reminded of this when I started watching the dubbed version of the new Netflix Norwegian comedy-drama Billionaire Island.
The dubbing isn't Coogan-level bad, but it does seems odd at times. Some minor characters are given regional English accents while a secretary sounds like she is based on Bubble from Absolutely Fabulous. So my first advice to any viewers of Billionaire Island is to make sure you watch it in the original Nordic with subtitles.
