Forget Penoza
I cherish warm memories of Overspel. Overspel with a capital O, that is, the series. I hadn't lived in our house for long, and as I curled up on the couch watching Overspel, I shuddered at the ominous rumbling I heard outside on the street. It turned out to be the garbage bins that my neighbors neatly rolled towards the curb on Thursday evenings. Still, it completed my experience.
After Overspel came Penoza. On Sunday evenings. I tucked my children into bed because I had to see the broadcast at the actual time. Uitzending Gemist is fine, but in the case of Overspel, it was not an option for anyone other than the creators to have seen a scene before I did. Penoza couldn't quite maintain the level and since then I've been looking for fresh fish.
It took a while, but I caught it. I Know Who You Are is my new regular date on Sunday evenings, and here's why:
1. The opening scene
Man (Daan Schuurmans) walks on an empty road. Bloodied, disheveled, attacked. He seems to have left his car. He is taken to the hospital where someone comes to get him who claims to be his wife. And he? He has no idea. He knows nothing. Well, I was hooked.
2. The house
It is impressively sleek yet beautiful. This is about an influential couple. He is a lawyer with his own firm, she is a prosecutor. Wealth, power, and coldness. What has happened here?
3. The wife of
So much older than he is. Why?
4. The niece
She is missing and was in the car with the Man (Daan Schuurmans). Did he really have an affair with her? In the trailer, you see her standing in her underwear in front of him, so I fear I know the answer.
5. The mistress
The only one he recognizes and the woman who immediately takes on the case against him. She can be called 24 hours a day, she tells the father of the missing niece. She doesn't want to solve the case; she wants to destroy the Man (Daan, that is).
6. The actors
Except for Daan Schuurmans (who plays masterfully as usual), the cast is quite unknown, which I find very pleasant because the characters come into their own without you bringing possible other roles of that actor into your perception.
Anyway. Tomorrow at 22:25. So, watch.
