Pernille (Seasons 1–5)

Pørni (Pernille, 2021) is a Norwegian dramedy you can watch online on iFILM. Its heroine puts everyone she loves first — and herself dead last.

She raises two daughters and a nephew on her own, props up her ageing father, and spends her days in a draining social-work job where other people's crises follow her home. The ex has decamped to Copenhagen and mostly thinks about himself. The question of when any room is left for her own life just hangs there, unanswered. The show nails that tired tenderness of people who've made a habit of being everyone else's anchor.

Henriette Steenstrup plays Pørni in a way that makes you want to hug her and shake her at once. The Scandinavian register reads instantly: dry humor, zero melodrama, pain and laughter sharing one frame. A small-scale story with no big set pieces — and that's exactly what pulls you in. Stream Pørni online on iFILM.