Lives from life
One of the best police series in recent years is set in Belfast in Northern Irish after the ‘Troubles’. Blue Lights Is about four starting agents who have to prove themselves before they get a permanent contract. In season two, the city center of Belfast is flooded by drugs. The research leads to a Protestant neighborhood. In addition to police work, the much -praised series pays attention to the private life of the agents. For example, Grace and her colleague Stevie have developed feelings for each other in season to be kept in check. The series is written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterterson, two former journalists. According to them, at least ninety to five percent of the events in the series are taken from life.
André Waardenburg
Luminous murder series
The structure of detective series Poker Face Is predictable: it starts fifteen minutes before the murder, in which the main character Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) is somehow involved by the job she has at the time. Already calling “bullshit” she then resolves the murder. After which the Mafiosi who are on her heels appear again, and she has to leave – on to the next track and the next murder. Well -received Poker Faceby director Rian Johnson (including Glass Onion), leans fiercely on absurdity and on the very charismatic Natasha Lyonne, who speaks like a New York chain smoker and Irresistible through every scene. The second season is slightly weaker than the first, but Lyonne makes up for a lot.
Nostalgic skatertrip
The only thing that was cooler than skateboarding around the turn of the century was like Skater to get a place in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater-Games. The soundtrack of each of the four games would also be decisive for the ‘sound’ of the skate movement; Songs like ‘The Boy who destroyed the world’ by Afi and ‘Wish’ by Alien Ant Farm are grooved in many millennial memory. A remake could not be missing in these nostalgic times. After part 1 and 2 follows Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4a polished but largely loyal revision of the original. Well, except for one point: the soundtrack is overhauled, according to Skater Tony Hawk to give other bands a chance. Choose a skater, take tricks, remove bad boys’ areas – and imagine you again in 2001. For those who miss the old soundtrack: it is of course On Spotify.
Len Maessen
Look on now from then
In OVT, the history program on the radio, this summer the series: Old words new world. Six writers and thinkers treat six historical books. They shine their light on issues of today with words from then. On July 20 it is the turn of historian and terrorism expert Beatrice de Graaf. She discusses the book In the shadows of tomorrow from 1935 from the Leiden historian Johan Huizinga. It went downhill with “the possessed world” around him, he thought. Radio and film, advertising, modern art, superficiality, moral decay, sports ponds, mass psychosis and technology-worship were signs of a degenerate culture. That sounds familiar almost a century later. Just described Huizinga the situation, or did he see it from the misery?
Vincent Bijlo