La Palma

Sara is a teenage girl who is attracted to Charlie, another girl she meets on holiday. Sara leaves safety and gives up her father’s plane place so Charlie can escape with her. The relationship returns across the season and helps decide who reaches safety in the finale. Tobias is written as autistic, while Jennifer’s growing distance from Fredrik adds a smaller gender-role thread. The volcano remains the main story.

Jennifer is shown pulling away from Fredrik as she focuses on fitness and seeks attention outside the marriage. Fredrik is often jealous and uncertain while Jennifer and Marie take active roles during the crisis. Government officials delay a warning because they fear blame, and Jens breaks orders to share the safe spot. The show questions family roles and official caution, but it does not build a clear attack on patriarchy, Christianity, capitalism, or conservatives.

Small X accounts called Sara and Charlie’s lesbian subplot forced LGBTQ content and said the show went woke. Reddit users and some Filmweb, Letterboxd, and Turkish forum posters made similar claims about the girls surviving and Sara risking her family for Charlie. The complaints appeared across several small sites, but no boycott or review-bombing campaign was reported. Wider criticism focused more on weak science, unlikely survival scenes, and the focus on Norwegian tourists.

Martin Sundland and Lars Gudmestad are mainly known for commercial disaster, thriller, and family stories. Harald Rosenløw-Eeg often writes about young people, outsiders, moral duty, and hard social problems. Those themes give a mild humanist and outsider-focused signal, but no key creator has a strong public record of DEI campaigning or partisan activism. The current series is marketed as survival entertainment, so the creator context remains low.