Red Light

Would have been better as one long movie. Main story line is good, I found it dragged on too long. First few episodes were really grabbing, lost interest halfway through, still watched until the end.

This drama is set in Antwerp and Amsterdam and focuses primarily on the sex trade and a particularly nasty pimp called Ingmar who runs a brothel with sex-trafficked Eastern European girls. 3 strong female characters also feature: Ingmar's "partner" who he obsessively controls, a police officer investigating the death of one of the trafficked girls and the upper-class wife of a client of the brothel who is found dead. The series comprises 10 episodes and for the most part is an excellent taut and gritty drama.

Sadly however, all this good work is totally undermined by a farcical final episode which stretches credulity to new limits. What a shame!

One of the best thriller-drama series ever written. Set in Antwerp and Amsterdam, it provides deep insights in the prostitution scene, the related legal and illegal activities and the thorough, complex police work needed to restrict it. Halina Reijn's and Carice van Houten's performances are both excellent; their relation dynamics unsettling. Both entertaining and very impressive.

This review is after watching series 1 (in the unlikely event of there being a series 2).

A Dutch show called Red Light and there is barely any nudity never mind sex scenes!

I tuned in to watch because I loved Koen De Bouw in the Belgian version of Professor T but he only has a support role here.

On the whole, a good series, as long as you understand that in modern TV, all women are angels and only do wrong things for good reasons while all men are evil or weak house husbands.

A very disjointed finale.

The title fooled me to think this would just be a sexually explicit romp with little dimension. Wrong. Red Light is a multi-layered drama with several story strands going simultaneously with the main story. Superbly done with some wonderful acting and interesting characters. Highly recommended.