

Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestA South African series based on classic British whodunits like Midsomer Murders and Lewis which follows the adventures of The Boland Investigative Unit, a fictitious elite detective unit that investigates murders in the Cape Winelands.
Production
Cape Winelands locations steal every scene.
Acting
Brendon Daniels brings gravitas to procedural tropes.
Writing
Localizes British cosy conventions surprisingly well.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series adapts the 'Midsomer' formula to address post-apartheid class tensions in the Winelands, where farm workers and estate owners coexist uneasily.
Creator Louis Pretorius later became showrunner for several Afrikaans prestige dramas, using this as his calling card.