However, one might also argue that she attempts to keep her son out of trouble while maintaining her job. This is increasingly inclined towards the end of the third season, when she tries to (re)build a relationship with her son, and additionally his pregnant girlfriend. In classical Hollywood cinema, “the family and home life are celebrated as a safe haven from the world outside” and are generally considered as part of the ‘happy ending’ (Blaser, 1999). The third season provides a text that asserts to a similar ending, focusing more on her relationship with her son in contrast to the earlier two seasons. Lund’s garden seems to function as a metaphor to this relationship. The reminiscence of the garden and its connection to her relationship with her son is implied since the first episode of the third series, when we first see her on screen. She is talking on the phone with her son, conversing that she wants to change the garden and that it “isn’t finished yet” while trying to set up a dinner to meet his girlfriend and, as turns out later, to apologize for her past behaviours as a mother. Later on in the series, her son’s girlfriend tries to help Lund out, attempting on bringing more life in her garden and Lund’s relationship with Mark, but her efforts can be found insignificant in the end, since Lund ends up fleeing the country without any real chance of happiness with her family, or a lively
However, one might also argue that she attempts to keep her son out of trouble while maintaining her job. This is increasingly inclined towards the end of the third season, when she tries to (re)build a relationship with her son, and additionally his pregnant girlfriend. In classical Hollywood cinema, “the family and home life are celebrated as a safe haven from the world outside” and are generally considered as part of the ‘happy ending’ (Blaser, 1999). The third season provides a text that asserts to a similar ending, focusing more on her relationship with her son in contrast to the earlier two seasons. Lund’s garden seems to function as a metaphor to this relationship. The reminiscence of the garden and its connection to her relationship with her son is implied since the first episode of the third series, when we first see her on screen. She is talking on the phone with her son, conversing that she wants to change the garden and that it “isn’t finished yet” while trying to set up a dinner to meet his girlfriend and, as turns out later, to apologize for her past behaviours as a mother. Later on in the series, her son’s girlfriend tries to help Lund out, attempting on bringing more life in her garden and Lund’s relationship with Mark, but her efforts can be found insignificant in the end, since Lund ends up fleeing the country without any real chance of happiness with her family, or a lively