'Atlantic Crossing' Gets on the Big Boat to the U.S.

In the opening episode of Atlantic Crossing, we saw the invasion of Norway in a new world order where official neutrality counts for nothing. Crown Princess Märtha and her children have escaped over the border to Sweden, where Ambassador Florence Harriman advises her to leave; Sweden is full of spies, and their hotel may be bombed. The family packs up once more and travels to the Royal Summer Castle, where Märtha reunites with her parents, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (Marianne Høgsbro) and Prince Carl (Jan Tiselius). As you’ll learn in this episode, the royal heads of Europe are all related to each other in one big, dysfunctional family.

We last saw Crown Prince Olav, his father, King Hakon VII, and their followers under gunfire in a forest, separated and panicking. Olav finds his father’s black armband, and then his father, and everyone regroups. The King’s plan, such as it is, is to move north and wait until promised British help arrives. The obvious problem is that British troops can’t fight in this environment — they can’t even ski!

(We saw some Norwegian soldiers camouflaged in the first episode, on skis.)