Norway’s central bank, 2018: one of the governmental Oil Fund’s financial managers follows a hunch and invests in Walt Disney, using his cellphone to purchase the stocks. He accidentally adds an extra zero to the order, causing turmoil in the financial markets and in the central bank itself. How could this have happened?

It didn’t. This scene is from a new sitcom, The Oil Fund, created by Harald Zwart. Well-known in Norway as the director of several comedies, Zwart is known to an international audience thanks to Hollywood movies such as Agent Cody Banks (2003) and The Karate Kid (2010).

With ambitions to mix TV series like Billions and Suits, with a dash of The Office, the sitcom follows the everyday life of the Norwegian Oil Fund’s financial managers. Financial whiz kids in bespoke suits make high-risk investment decisions on a whim, amid a dysfunctional office culture and poor personal judgement. Banknotes flutter out of the windows, gold bars are used as weights, and the basement is packed with expensive gifts from dodgy businesses (in social-democratic Norway, of course, the managers aren’t allowed to take the gifts for themselves).