Het jaar van Fortuyn

The year of Fortuyn is one of the best TV series to come out of the Netherlands since a long time. The story is very well portrait by great actors, the good scriptwriting and direction make it a pleasure to watch, the photography is perfect, and the choice of music is surprising and completes this original series.

This is a c category series with mediocre actors. I would say more or less a typical Dutch series. Poor acting and cheap filming. Really not worth wasting your time on.

It is definitely worthwhile to have a series about Pim Forteyn's period in politics. However, I think that Pim would not have been happy with the way this is done. Melkert does not resemble the true Melkert at all. I followed Melkert in the press in that period, but he was much more the intellectual and solidly appeared in the press. These were also his weaknesses. In this series he seems a soft house father and more of a slave towards others. Also Pim himself, he was determined when he appeared on tv while he is here often uncertain and easy to bypass. It is a pity. This series could have been so interesting. The dialogues could have been vivid too.

There are some events in life you'll never forget where you were on that particular moment. Like 9/11. I was in bed, breastfeeding my second son when I saw on tv both planes flying into the WTC.

And I remember May 6th 2002. When Pim Fortuyn was murdered. It was a warm day, that evening. That 6 PM news.. The people in the Netherlands were mad. Like they've never been before. Dutch people are not emotional? Well, we were then!

This series brought, no: pulled, me back in time. Acting and timing are so well put. I laughed many times, because I recognized every word, every tone, every look. This series draggs you back in time. And the soundtracks make it even better, if that's even possible.