Het Eiland - Season 1 (2004)
Show title: Het Eiland
IMDb score:
8,8 (3.296)
Episodes: 7
Playing time: 4 hour and 05 minutes
Developed by: Jan Eelen
Stars: Frank Focketyn, Wim Opbrouck and Dirk van Dijck
Origin:
Belgium
Releasedate: Saturday 31 January 2004
First aired on: Comedy Central (Verenigde Staten)
This season is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and Actresses
Hanz Rimmer
Anita Backx
Linda Hombroeckx
Lydia Protut
Sammy Tanghe
Rik Nallaerts
Guido Pallemans
Alain Vandam
Frankie Loosveld
Liesje Walschaerts
Bucky Laplasse
Michel Drets
Sonja Drets
Frederik Van Rooy
Reviews & comments
AOVV
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- 350 messages
- 2367 votes
Hilarious Flemish TV series, with a colorful mishmash of characters with multiple angles. The acting is strong, the dialogues are timely enough to make you cry with laughter. Especially the interaction between Alain Vandam (Tom Van Dyck) and Sammy Tanghe (Bruno Vanden Broucke) is very strong. I think this first series is just a bit better than the second, not least because Sien Eggers plays an important role in it, and Alain is not yet generally accepted by the colleagues, which is mainly due to wonderful struggles with Frankie Loosveld (Wim Opbrouck) yields.
Together with Van Vlees en Bloed, Het Peulengaleis and Quiz Me Quick, this series can compete for the first place of the Flemish TV series in my personal list.
4.5 stars
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timburton_mm
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- 6 messages
- 30 votes
I get special warm feelings about this series. Didn't realize nostalgia was possible in the early 00s. Het Eiland is one of the most successful Dutch-language series that can express dryness and empathy in the context of everyday life. Sometimes the series is a bit bland, but that can be digested with such wonderfully conceived characters. Season 1 better captures the atmosphere of the daily boredom in Flemish (and generally Western) office life. But compared to the predecessor, the second season falls far less often and it manages to keep the balance between the absurd and the bland. The dynamics that arise on the island where the infantile Frankie sees the socially handicapped Alain as an intruder on his meaningful office life is central to the first series of episodes. That tension crumbles in production a year later after the two characters finally embraced each other. Fortunately, that is soon resolved with a new storyline.
What makes this Belgian series especially successful is that Jan Eelen understood when to stop. The second season gives exactly the extra humor, atmosphere (and even a bit of suspense) that the first season was missing and at the same time closes the series at its peak.
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Zandkuiken
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- 1751 messages
- 1459 votes
At the time I had very high expectations of Het Eiland. I thought The Office was brilliant, I thought In the Gloria was brilliant, so then this cross-pollination had to produce fireworks, right?
I remember that Het Geslacht De Pauw was programmed on Friday and Het Eiland on Saturday. I was really looking forward to the second one, I knew little about the first one and therefore had no expectations.
But while the De Pauw family had me doubled over laughing from the first minute, I found Het Eiland quite disappointing. I thought this was more like FC De Kampioenen than The Office.
I managed to keep it up for a few more episodes, but Het Eiland was one of the biggest disappointments in terms of series for me. And The De Pauw Family remains for me the most witty thing ever made.
Anyway, The Island has since acquired a kind of iconic status for many and I have now given it another chance. Of course I know the one-liners, but I wanted to watch the series in its entirety.
And that turned out very well. Sometimes I still think it's a bit too loud and some characters are very close to caricature, but it's all much less bad than how I remembered it. Of course, it doesn't have the subtlety of In de Gloria, but it's still quite funny.
It is a bit more aimed at a large audience than In de Gloria, but nevertheless I am happy that I sat down to watch it again, 20 years later. Season 2 will follow soon.
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