Leven en dood van Quidam Quidam

In this series, you can see that the future isn't as nice as it would be. The death penalty has been reinstalled and the whole country is filled with cameras to watch all the things people do. In this series you can see the life of Quidam Quidam, the first boy who will be executed. You can see the backgrounds of his life and how The Netherlands became such a country. Most of the time the subjects of the movies and series and the acting performances of the actors aren't very good in the Netherlands, but this is is a good exception. The subject is original for a dutch series and the actors are from a good quality. It is good enough that I follow the series and I like it.

A Dutch feature series that's science fiction and political satire at the same time. That sounds quite unlikely but there is one such series: Quidam Quidam!

If only we could get this on DVD, watch it online, download it... but unfortunately the series got almost no attention and was forgotten quickly. For me, it still counts among the best TV productions ever made in Holland, and I would love to see it again.

The future as portrayed in this series is not very bright at all. But we are 10 years down the road and the general mood in our country has not improved. Xenophobe parties have government influence, social security is being privatized if not abolished - the things this TV series show are somewhat over the top, but not even that much.

This series has received far to less attention in the Netherlands. Quidam takes current controversial issues like death penalty, DNA-databases, Artificial Intelligence in daily life and brings them a life in the Netherlands 2020. It shows how horrible things could turn out, but how comfortable some people are in giving power to the authorities. So much power that they literally know everything everybody does and put in your personal file. The music, the actors, the lighting and the background research is very good. I hope they will broadcast it again at primetime.