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Baantjer het Begin - Season 1 (2019)

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Alternative title: Amsterdam Vice

IMDb score: 7,3 (491)

Episodes: 8

Playing time: 5 hour and 27 minutes

Developed by: Rachel van Bommel

Stars: Waldemar Torenstra, Tygo Gernandt and Fedja van Huêt

Origin: Netherlands

Releasedate: Monday 30 December 2019

First aired on: Videoland (Nederland)

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Baantjer het Begin plot

Amsterdam, 1980. It is the time of great social change. Amid the squatters' riots and demonstrations, the idealistic young detective Jurre de Cock starts at the Warmoesstraat office. His partner, the purebred Amsterdammer Tonnie Montijn, shows him around the city. The duo gradually stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy, which turns out to be part of a bigger plan. Then De Cock is assigned a new partner: Andy Ruiter, transferred from the Bijlmer. Meanwhile, Amsterdam is overrun with heavy weapons and the police force is not yet able to cope with organized crime. Bureau Warmoesstraat turns out to be as leaky as a basket and it quickly becomes clear to De Cock that he cannot trust everyone blindly. Crime is tough, the pressure is high and a wrong decision is easily made.

Episodes Season 1 (2019)

  1. Episode 1

    30 December 2019 (52 minutes)

  2. Episode 2

    30 December 2019 (42 minutes)

  3. Episode 3

    30 December 2019 (42 minutes)

  4. Episode 4

    30 December 2019 (41 minutes)

  5. Episode 5

    30 December 2019 (39 minutes)

  6. Episode 6

    30 December 2019 (38 minutes)

  7. Episode 7

    30 December 2019 (36 minutes)

  8. Episode 8

    30 December 2019 (37 minutes)

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tommykonijn

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It started pretty well with the movie (or: the first two episodes), but as the series progressed, I actually found it less and less interesting. In my opinion, the story takes unnecessary sidetracks and is quickly and unsatisfactorily rushed in the last episode.

Torenstra as De Cock was not too bad for me to be honest. I certainly recognized some typical traits in him, although it may be said that he seems to be portrayed here as half James Bond. The series doesn't really explore how he eventually became such a good detective. In any case, remarkably little is done with the source material and it seems to want to be a product in itself. You may therefore wonder why the names of Baantjer and De Cock should be linked to this if necessary. Yannick Jozefzoon as Jurre's partner is not annoying. The rest of the desk is. Low point are comically intended figures such as Horace Cohen, Ruben van der Meer and Bas Keijzer, who sometimes really get on the nerves. Rarely seen such a bunch of nasty characters together and it doesn't help that two of the three are such well-known heads. I also couldn't do much with the roles of Peter Bolhuis and Ryanne van Dorst.

As good as this series looks, of course much tighter than the old series, I still prefer to put on an episode of that old series in question. Of course you can hardly compare this with each other, but it happens automatically (it was a conscious choice to give this the name 'Baantjer'). I miss (successful) humor, tension and a sense of interest in the business. I won't say that every episode of the old Baantjer met those three conditions, but I think this prequel can still take an example from it.

2.5*

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Donkerwoud

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It has little to do with the original Baantjer, but it is very suitable as a continuation of the movie of the same name. That harsher, grimier tone of a Mokum in the eighties, like a kind of wild west where the underworld and the upper world hold each other's hand above their heads. Where an idealistic detective like Jurre de Cock (Waldemar Torenstra) suffers the trauma of the one time he had to intervene with his service weapon, while Andy Ruiter (Yannick Josefzoon) ends up fresh from the Bijlmer in a stronghold full of racist officers. Also nice how such a characteristic element from the book series (de Cock will never use his weapon) is part of the psychological development of the main character and is even discussed. Is it ethical for De Cock to endanger his fellow agents with his individual choice? Or is his association with an international intelligence agency, who freely flout the rules, more morally objectionable than being armed? It doesn't get really deep, but it's nice that this gives the main character a little more layering and psychological cachet. And not unimportant: it looks remarkably cared for. With some thrilling action sequences and a plot that holds surprises until the very end. I see plenty of plot space for follow-up seasons. Although I hope they keep the pressure on and we can expect a confrontation with 'the bad guys' who survived this season unscathed.

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