Turbulent Skies

They clearly spent a lot of time on the art direction, which is quite impressive considering the extremely low budgets of Dutch shows. This one deserves to be sold well internationally - although I don't necessarily care for the subject matter, the love put into this should be recognized.

This series follows Albert Plesman and Anthony Fokker starting at the pionieer days of aviation up until the start of WWII. It has a fairly decent storyline, decent cast (although I don't care for Daan Schuurmans who comes off as a bit annoying to me). I think it's a very interesting way to depict aviation history in a drama series like this even though it's not alway historically acurate and I kind of wish that it was more acurate. I don't get why they strayed from certain historical facts like the events involving Jan Plesman. The old 'real life' footage that is included in between some scenes is a nice touch though. The soundtrack sounds nice but doesn't really seem to fit the setting. It's probably not going to happen but I would like to see a second season starting at the beginning of WWII. The events during WWII and how the KLM immediately started to rebuild its network after the war up until Plesman's death should be more than enough content.

The product value of this show is remarkable for a Dutch show. The use of practical CGI, the set dressing, coloring, et cetera is really leveled up. I was tired of seeing the same old cheesy Dutch TV shows and I was reluctant to watch this. My bias was unfounded. I haven't seen enough to find out if the story keeps me engaged but this show should be applauded no matter what - this is showing a way forward for the somewhat sad state of the Dutch film industry. This proves it can be done.

Someone was too stupid or lazy to use the music and dance of the period they are supposed to be in. Probably a combination of the two.

The actor portraying Hermann Goering looks nothing like him, is rather slim.

What a fantastic story! Well told, beautiful imaging & very emotional. Excellent quality