After What Hanna Did

Nobody saw Skam coming. Julie Andem’s Norwegian teen drama built its following quietly, cycling four protagonists—Eva, Noora, Isak, Sana—through heartbreak, homework, sexuality, and faith in short episodes that unfolded partly in real time across social media. No taboos, no tidy resolutions, and a genuine instinct for how teenagers actually move through the world. It became a phenomenon anyway, the kind of slow-burn word-of-mouth that streaming algorithms still can’t quite engineer.

Druck—"pressure"—is the German adaptation, and its first episode just dropped. The premise centers on Hanna, sixteen, recently at the top of her school’s social hierarchy until she hooked up with her best friend Leonie’s boyfriend. Now she’s essentially alone, picking her way through that wreckage. The new friends she slowly finds—Mia, Kiki, Amira, Thalia, Sam—come from different worlds with different values, which is the whole point: the show isn’t interested in a ready-made tribe but in the harder work of building something genuine after you’ve burned what you had.

What Skam always did best was resist the polished unreality of most teen television. Druck seems to be reaching for the same register—raw edges, genuine awkwardness, situations that don’t resolve into lessons. Whether a German production can sustain that tone as steadily as the Norwegian original is the real question. But the first episode earns its setup.