Flikken Rotterdam

The decisions of the characters/cops in the show are stupid and unprofessional and the show is lazy writing.

In episode two a notary is abducted from his office. There are multiple clues that this a part of a crime; like lot's of blood in his office, his secretary telling the police that there must be a break-in and that somebody took him, the notary should be at the office but is not, signs of a break in, the whereabouts of the notary is unknown etc. The police however thinks there is no sign of a crime and don't even investigates until the body of the notary is found.

After finding the body the police questions the secretary and the first question is: Was your boss a criminal and/or conducting criminal actions? There was absolutely no reason to ask this and of course the secretary gets mad at the officer for asking the question and doesn't want to answer anymore questions.

The public officer, played by Huub Stapel, is also an idiot who does not know anything about the law. In the show they use legal terms but they don't even know what these terms mean. In episode two they put a suspect in 'bewaring' (temporary custody) while the subject should be put 'inverzekeringstelling' (police custody) first. Later in the show the public officer tells the suspect that she can testify that she committed murder because she was arrested for helping a TBS-er escape. So he stated that murder is not part of the charge and she will not incriminate herself this way.

However the suspect was not even charged yet, but was put in temporary custody. A public offender can summon a suspect for a different crime then for the crime that he/she was arrested for. However the writer thinks that if you arrest somebody for shoplifting you can't summon him for murder after finding more evidence later etc.

The show is full of such nonsense. You should avoid this.

After watching the whole first series which began a bit slow and boring it build up pretty good till the end and I must say I liked it very much.

It has all you would expect from a dutch police series. It has a "rode draad" in all episodes nicely build up to the last episode and made you want to watch next weeks one.

Comparing this to Flikken Maastricht it felt like it had lesser violence and felt much lesser of a show performance and much more like real life. Sure both differ from each other but just go watch this for yourselves.

Personally I hope many more seasons will be coming!

Flikken Rotterdam is better than Flikken Maastricht.

Flikken Maastricht has more often cliché storylines and sometimes it irritates my when there is not enough tension or thrill in a story like Flikken Maastricht. Also i always find Flikken Maastricht much too realistich. Come on people i really want a explosive episode!.

No the difference between Flikken Rotterdam and Maastricht is very simpel, i like the leading actors of Flikken Rotterdam more than in Flikken Maastricht. Stan is always grumpy and funny! also i like Dries and Esther. The attorny Hein Berg is very serious and far better!.

And i like the storylines of Flikken Rotterdam more than Maastricht sometimes more explosive and dangerous!

Worthless series, bad acting, bad script, don't understand why this series should be called Flikken. has nothing to do with the Belgian original. flikken maastricht still had interfaces with the original, but this series did not at all