‘The School of Housewives’ Writers on Their Intimate Icelandic Social Issues Drama, Competing at Göteborg
variety.comJamie Lang “The School of Housewives,” a popular Icelandic drama that debuted last year on public broadcaster RÚV, is a major contender for this year’s Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the biggest prize for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia.
The series turns Hekla, who, after being in and out of rehab since she was a teenager, enrolls in The School of Housewives – a real facility based in Reykjavik – in order to get her daughter back from foster care.
But she, and several characters, can’t help but wonder, is learning to knit, bake and clean going to make any of them more fit mothers?
Through their shared struggles, these women find strength in one another, forming a community that empowers them all. “The School of Housewives” is directed by Arnór Pálmi Arnarson, who co-wrote with Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
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