Sedes & Belli

"Sedes&Belli" is NOT boring! Maybe you can forecast what's coming, but that is NOT boring! The actors are really great and the stories are good! The caracters aren't maybe not so nice to there colleague's, but that's the storie. That's what makes "Sedes&Belli" great! "Sedes&Belli" is NOT boring!

The only thing that is good about those Flemish series are the begin-credits of the films, which have a very graphical and photographic quality. But everything is downhill from that point on. Even with numerous directors working on the different episodes, it is remarkable to see that non of them actually makes something remotely engaging, not to say interesting! They all stay in the footsteps of old series like Heterdaad or Windkracht 10, but never innovate or surprise their audience. The camerawork is shaking constantly without any purpose, the action sequences are boring, the drama never gets higher than the usual superficial pulp we use to read in second hand pulp drama's, the dialogue doesn't work and explains too much, the scenes are stupid, the actress who plays Belli is poorly cast and the series contain music that doesn't work on the different sequences. I had a constant feeling those series were made by old television people who could never hack it in the cinema business and tried desperately to imitate without knowing what they were doing. Another poor attempt going down the drain.

This series can now be seen on a Belgian channel. It is good that only 2 seasons were made because I am used to much better Belgian series. Acting is bad and made. Some characters are flat or too exaggerated and some characters are downright annoying. Actually, they all act pretty badly. And actually the series is quite annoying, but sometimes as a pastime or to fall asleep to it will do.

This must be the worst Belgian series ever made. Acting is too bad for words, the shaking camera (probably used to make it look flashy & modern) makes you sea-sick, and the scripts are, to put it lightly , childish: Detectives going undercover in a supermarket... How low can you go?...

One bright spark in the sea of darkness however... The soundtrack is excellent.