Orkestret - Season 2

Jeppe and Regitze are divorced and have different ways of coping with life. Jeppe tries to get a handle on the anger through mindful yoga, and Regitze fixes the guilt with dry cleaning and AA meetings. Bo still sits as 2nd clarinet in the Orchestra, while his former student Elin is firmly planted in the first seat. But Elin is heavily pregnant, so the first seat will soon be free. As acting boss, Jeppe must solve the Gordian knot of filling the hall with a new and preferably younger audience.

Alma has a birthday, and Jeppe is "invited" to the party as if he were a guest of the family. A position that does not suit Jeppe. That's why he wants to be on top and fulfills Alma's great wish - a pet. It's a fish, but Simon surpasses him when he presents her with a puppy. The fish and Jeppe are forgotten. At the same time, Jeppe has become unpopular with the Orchestra, as he has spared their good canteen arrangement and hired the former tenants of a canteen in Hvidovre, Lene and Duddi, whose food is miles below standard, if you ask Bo.

Jeppe tries to appeal to the young audience and has invited the female rapper Sin The Rellah as a guest artist together with the Orchestra. They have to perform Let them burn - Rellah's most popular number, and Alma is super excited. Vibeke is placed against her will in a nursing home in Herlev, where she will live for the last time, and Bo tries to make it cozy, while he has to accept with disgust that Simon is back as 1st clarinet.

To Bo's dismay, Psyk-Mette is back to talk about well-being and "the good tone". The orchestra has to go through a well-being survey, and Bo is nervous about what the others will say about him. Jeppe discovers that Alma and Simon play tennis together, which is after all the "real father's" job. Jeppe catfishes Tobias's mother as an involuntary co-conspirator to intervene in the tennis training, because he will probably show Simon who is best to be a father figure to Alma.

Regitze and Simon are to be married, and Jeppe must appear as an adult and mature person in the audience at his arch-rival and ex-wife's wedding. Bo's rage reaches new heights when Simon breaks the news that management has decided to demote him to 3rd clarinet. Bo is distraught, and at the same time his dying mother asks him to help plan her funeral.

The Ministry of Culture's binoculars have landed on the Orchestra, and the consultant Frey has been sent to submit a report on equality, diversity and the working environment in the Orchestra. Gertrud orders Jeppe to fix it, and he turns up the charm to cover up an otherwise very reactionary and hierarchical workplace, so that it does not affect the cultural contribution. But reality is hard to hide when you are confronted with it.

Getting into a fight has consequences, also in the Orchestra. The clarinet section has been called to a mediation meeting with Psyk-Mette after Bo and Simon fell out with each other. An apology must be made and the hatchet must be buried NOW, which is exactly what is not happening. Jeppe and Regitze miss an important call from Alma's school because they are busy having an affair. So Simon steps in and gets involved in solving Alma's boyfriend problem.

Jeppe is pushed to the edge. The orchestra's finances are hanging by a thin thread, and the family situation has only become more complicated. Regitze points Jeppe in the direction of an old acquaintance, Marcus Holm, an entrepreneur with pockets full of gold. But when you mix art and hardcore business, you get cracking integrity, and Jeppe is faced with a difficult decision. Bo meets an old flame, and Lene feels reduced to air.

Mablewood is back in the House, and the contest for the 1st vote can now be held. Bo fears for his preparation for the competition, as his broken little finger prevents the necessary deep concentration. The gap between Jeppe and Alma grows.

Bo's worst nightmare and biggest dream have simultaneously come true: He has taken the place as 1st clarinet in an honest and fair way from Simon, but the Orchestra will play Simon's debut work Ode to Alma, which even Bo must admit is a masterpiece.