First the good:
Production values are high and the locations innovative. Camerawork is ok to good. Editing is good. Sound is good. Score is good. The actor playing the governor is ok, as is the actor playing his wife. The actor playing the American singer's father is also ok. The Swedish characters actors seem ok to good so far--only seen one episode, but so many things stuck out as wrong that I'd to stop and write this.
Now the bad to not so good:
The actor playing the American singer is perhaps the most vanilla (and faux) punk rocker in history, and his acting is TERRIBLE. Tbf, he may be an otherwise ok actor, but it's clear from his choices he shouldn't have been cast in this role. And to be even more fair, this could be the director's fault for letting him play the scenes the way he did. The actress who plays the governor's daughter is cookie-cutter one dimensional and, like the American singer actor, her acting is also forced and unbelievable. This wouldn't be so bad if they had chemistry, but there's no chemistry between the two of them at all. They not only don't look like they're interested in each other, they don't even look like they're interested in the opposite sex. (Speaking figuratively here--there are many talented actors who can pull off heterosexual attraction but who are not actually heterosexual.)
Got news for these Swedes: Even the most racist right-wing white supremacist American politician (which the governor character is not) wouldn't be seen having anyone close to him that looks like a white supremacist, as the bald headed goatee'd guy on stage behind the governor does. That just wouldn't ever happen. Ever. This isn't a comment about his acting because I've not seen him do anything yet, and it may not be a comment about casting either; as a simple shave, or a mustache alone with no goatee would've probably done the trick.
Perhaps the director wasn't going for realism, but was rather attempting camp and misguided cliché ("misguided", because pure cliché would've been a vast improvement), in which case he's succeeded. Or maybe his own biases made him make the choices he did. Still, the actors should have probably helped him not to make so many simple mistakes on so many important details.
