Fenix

I was surprised by slow scenes. Very well acted I must say. The actors made me finish the season. The script has some weird twists, but in general the script is good. I just wish the pace was much faster with shorter highlights throughout the season.

This was quite the surprise. In first 10,minutes nor dialogue practically, just ominous plotting in a bleak but captivating landscape. I was just waiting for the cut to the office where the banal small talk would have made me change the channel, but it never came. The plot just keeps moving with minimal words, no wasted melodrama and anticipation of the story and motives revealing themselves. But surprisingly the reveals never really come or just raise more questions. Very subdued yet imminent feeling and with the entrance of Ms Rifka an alluring sharp tough and yes attractive woman determined to pierce the veils of bad actors as well as questionable officials it's hard not to watch all episodes in a single day. After a hard week at work, and the shallowness of the current social malaise this series is a welcome relief from the social shallowness promoted everywhere in our culture and politics and embraced by the rubes who do their bidding.

Yes it's slow, and not for the impatient and young, but it's one of the better Noir series in recent years. There are the inevitable plot holes to maneuver around but they don't irritate because the story is deep and complex and multi layered. It borrows from "The Godfather" and "Shakespeare," "Narcos" and many Noirs, but it does so lovingly. The tough, asocial, main female lead is now de rigueur, time to soften the breed, as is the calm, never rattled sociopath, whatever happened to Bat Poop crazy? I see a second season coming.

Story is not new but in that surrounding not bad. the confuse narrative style looks not professionally more like the work of a crazy professor...

With a superb atmosphere. A dutch series which deserves more attention. Hope Netflix will continue the series.