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Undercover (2019-2022)

3 seasons
3,61 1.057 votes

State: Ended

Genre: Drama

Origin: Belgium / Netherlands

Developed by: Jan Theys

Stars: Frank Lammers, Tom Waes and Anna Drijver

IMDb score: 7,8 (21.510)

Releasedate: Sunday 24 February 2019

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Undercover plot

The Dutchman Ferry Bouman is one of the largest XTC producers in the world. He lives in a villa in Limburg, but spends the weekends and holidays on a campsite a hundred meters from his house. The Belgian police brings two undercover agents, a man and woman who have to play a couple, at the campsite to make contact and infiltrate his network.

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Donkerwoud

  • 1237 comments
  • 659 votes
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Undercover season 1

Not much to add to the previous comments. 'Undercover' (2019) is a slick production and the undercover aspect is nicely worked out. Both cops and criminals have a role to play in order not to fall under each other's rigid rules. It's just such a shame that the series fires cliffhangers and plot twists at you at a killer pace, which may keep the suspense tight but at the same time often at the expense of emotional development. Take for example the moment when John Zwart against his gut has to decide to shoot Jurgen, knowing what this will mean for his own daughter. It could have been a heavy and charged moment, but now feels undeserved because it lacks a proper build-up in which you have bonded with involved characters. In fact, that Jurgen hated me so much as a caricatural crook that the fateful shot didn't stir any emotion. I'll take this as an example, but there are more times when the series builds towards catharsis but the build up to it feels undeserved. 'Undercover' looks nice but doesn't stick enough.

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remorz

  • 26 comments
  • 212 votes
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Undercover season 1

Friendly.

Although the series doesn't really do much wrong, it doesn't excel at anything either. Let alone that any form of innovation is involved. In that respect, the much-read praise for this Dutch-language production rather indicates how much our language area lags behind foreign thrillers.

For example, the tension of being undercover never really reaches a boiling point, the attempts that lead to it are too transparent and it also doesn't help that both the criminal circuit and the police force come across as clumsy rather than ingenious. It's nice that Lammers' role remains more local in nature, but a quick-tempered peasant is just less menacing than a cunning mastermind.

Still: entertaining and captivating throughout the entire playing time and almost all actors deliver solid to good performances. Good entertainment, but no landslide innovation.

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Guido Jerzi

  • 1 comments
  • 1 votes
Monday 12 October 2020
Undercover season 2

This season is a grandiose mockery. Will be widely advertised with Frank Lammers. Where is he?? The story is like 1 in thousands. Tension? Nothing there 0.0 I dropped out with a thumbs down.
Season 1 Super. Season 2 Flop! It is clear that Frank Lammers and Elise Schaap have given this series a swing and made it a mega sc6 undercover together with the 2 Belgian colleagues of course. However, the viewer is put on the wrong foot here and gets a wrong expectation. Unfortunately. A real shame. I was really looking forward to it.

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