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The setup should sound familiar. Our hero is a huge, blond Nordic warrior. Weapon-wise, he favors sledgehammers and lightning; emotion-wise, uninterrogated goodness. His younger brother’s an inveterate prankster. The bad guys are a family named Jutul, which is one letter away from the Norwegian word for “giant.” Except this time, you won’t find capes or angry green mutants. Taking their place are—wait for it—portentous climate change references. Watch out!
Netflix’s newest superhero coming-of-age drama, Ragnarok, de-Marvelizes the viking myths for our climate-crisis age of Scandinavian child heroes. It follows Magne, an awkward Norweigan teen who moves to a town called Edda with his mother and brother. Situated in the shadow of a mountain, Edda appears diseased. The glaciers are melting; fish are dying. Bad omens abound. When an old woman touches Magne’s forehead, his eyes change color. Soon, he’s swept up into an ancient tussle between Good and Evil, and the stakes are the fate of the world. Also, he goes to high school.
At its campiest, Ragnarok gives off Twilight vibes. The sinister Jutuls are the wealthiest family in town, so, naturally, everyone at school has crushes on them. The show features standard-issue drama: bike wheels stomped, crushes unrequited, homework assignments tampered with, flasks smuggled into the school dance. Few people seem to think too hard about the supernatural events happening in their midst, even when it gets really strange. (Strangest: At the high school dance, the Jutul siblings put on an oozy hard rock song, their eyes turn yellow,
