Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestPetra may resume her service with the police, but she is not out of debt yet. Rens has become Gideon's confidential advisor. But when they start off with a load of drugs, his own family is ready for an attack. Jara investigates Torre's true identity and discovers her father's things in his house, such as a video recording of his last minutes.
A dark world of well-organised drug crime is hidden behind the calm life of Brabant. Jara and Rens both come to discover that when upon return to their birth province after a long time. She wants to clear the name of her father, he wants to distance himself from his criminal family - but they both get terribly entangled in the web of the upper and underworld, whose boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred.
Acting
Rifka Lodeizen's controlled devastation in every scene
Direction
Korver turns flat Brabant landscapes into purgatory
Writing
Upperworld respectability as its own criminal enterprise
Creator
Shariff Korver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brabant's Catholic bourgeois culture—where church attendance and criminal enterprise coexist—is rarely depicted this specifically in international crime drama.
Korver insisted on shooting in the actual villages where the real Brabant drug networks operated, making locals both extras and uneasy witnesses.
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