Dirty Lines

Being 17 in 1989 and living under the smoke of Amsterdam, this series has nailed the Zeitgeist for sure. Dancing in Dansen Bij Jansen, the illegal houseparty's in the Silo, it's exactly how it was back then and I really enjoy being thrown back in time. Plus it's a great history lesson, but only in the background, not only about the transfer from disco to house music in the Netherlands and the introduction of extacy, but also about the start of the gay subculture in Amsterdam.

Besides the nostalgia, it's a good series. The characters are lovable and the acting is good.

This series hits the eighties in all details. Funny and entertaining. Beginning is a little bit to long. When you dutch it has a lot op inside jokes. This is hoe your parents lived.

Great show. Just watch further than one episode as the first episode may seem a bit confusing due to the "parallel" story telling and the facts inserts. After the second episode the show starts to open in all its beauty. Would advise for everyone, who would like to have a positive evening or destruct from the routine. The show also surprises with diversity, equality, and sexual openness. Loved it!

The start is a little to slow and predictable. After a that it is fun to watch. For a dutch serie pretty funny because I Am dutch and all the old 80/90 brands and labels etc. If you are not dutch and born in after the 90ties you re not gonna like it. I liked it but my score could have been 8 of 9 if it was a little less woke.

Really good! The first episode you need for the basic plot set up. Then from episode 2 it gets really good. Chris Peters as Ramon is a real discovery! It really catches the Zeitgeist of that time. Some people are talking about wokeness? Well perhaps Holland was and always has been woke. But the people with their regressive orthodox minds are trying to reverse things to the 1800's. What those people mean with: they don't want wokeness to be 'forced' upon them,' is code for: they want to discriminate, they want to suppress people sexually and they don't want others to express themselves in anyway they want it. They can go watch Russian cable tv, that will please them for sure. I'm old enough to know what it was like in the late 1980's and the 1990's, in The Netherlands. Woke? Nonsense. In the Randstad area (the biggest megalopolis of Europe with at its heart the 4 big cities of The Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht) the Dutch were and are still like this. People of every skin colour and sexual preference, the house party scene, the sex telephone lines, the actual sex people had and have: it's a reality. So reality is woke then. Conservatives can go watch all white Friends or Seinfeld and finish with Fox News. Dirty Lines is rooted in real life. Great actors, and great production. With many funny moments.