

Season 1 • Episode 16
LatestThis series from the regional homicide department in Hradec connects episodic cases with a larger central mystery—the unsolved case of a woman shot dead on the shore of a pond. This plot connects the individual episodes and gradually reveals that the perpetrator may be closer than anyone thinks.
Acting
Julia Issa's weary determination anchors every scene
Cinematography
Misty Bohemian landscapes that breathe dread
Writing
Case-of-week structure hiding slow-burn conspiracy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hradec Králové's actual homicide rate is vanishingly low; the show invents rural Czech crime drama almost from whole cloth.
Nellis deliberately cast theater actors from Prague's DAMU against regional unknowns to create visible class tension within the squad.