Well, the cast is fantastic, the script ok, but the contrivances are just covering poor plotting and concept writing.
Firstly if you're an Afghani immigrant come Dutch policeman, you are open about everything you do and say. Because if you aren't, you don't get to be a Dutch policeman - that's just the reality for immigrants from unstable countries with a high proportion of terrorist and criminal activity.
Our hero would have been calling all his colleagues to look at the 'murder-board' in his house at every party, national security would have already known he knew the guy at the school from before - because he would have told them. Heck, he would have enlisted their help!
Mardik would not have been sullen and pulled attitude with the security services, because in his line of work, he knows that will earn instant suspicion about his background.
And ok, given all these impossibilities were ok, I don't think the NSS woman would have asked why he didn't take his wife and female child to Afghanistan. Nobody in their right minds would take any woman or girl to this country and many like it, if they seriously cared for their welfare.... so it was just bad and obvious contrivance, one after the other...
I just couldn't get past episode 2, and I think that this could have been much better planned out to a similar story but with believable happenings.
It's a shame because I love the cast, but the stupidities just keep taking me right out of the happenings.
Firstly if you're an Afghani immigrant come Dutch policeman, you are open about everything you do and say. Because if you aren't, you don't get to be a Dutch policeman - that's just the reality for immigrants from unstable countries with a high proportion of terrorist and criminal activity.
Our hero would have been calling all his colleagues to look at the 'murder-board' in his house at every party, national security would have already known he knew the guy at the school from before - because he would have told them. Heck, he would have enlisted their help!
Mardik would not have been sullen and pulled attitude with the security services, because in his line of work, he knows that will earn instant suspicion about his background.
And ok, given all these impossibilities were ok, I don't think the NSS woman would have asked why he didn't take his wife and female child to Afghanistan. Nobody in their right minds would take any woman or girl to this country and many like it, if they seriously cared for their welfare.... so it was just bad and obvious contrivance, one after the other...
I just couldn't get past episode 2, and I think that this could have been much better planned out to a similar story but with believable happenings.
It's a shame because I love the cast, but the stupidities just keep taking me right out of the happenings.