Why you want to watch BuZa tonight

Actually, I could sum it up in one sentence regarding this piece. BuZa, you want to watch because it’s from the creators of Klem and Overspel.

Now I must say that I need to give Klem a second chance (I had some trouble with Barry Atsma in a not-so-good-looking role, sorry, terrible of me, I know, but it is what it is), but Overspel was one of the few series I was really ready for. Every Thursday evening. I hadn’t lived in my Haarlem neighborhood for long, so I didn’t know all the sounds very well yet, and always at the moment when the most exciting scene unfolded, I would always hear an ominous drumming in front of my house. We were being murdered. Or at least eavesdropped on. And spied on. It turned out to be just the good citizens putting their gray bins neatly on the sidewalk, but what exciting hours I experienced on my little bench.

Anyway. The big secret behind Overspel and Klem is Frank Ketelaar. He is responsible for those brilliant dialogues, or as he said in the Volkskrant: “I want actors who can play the difference between a comma and a semicolon.” And you can feel that. And to achieve that, he casts the best of the best. Kees Prins, Jacob Derwig, Freek Bartels, and Saskia Temmink, who received a Golden Calf nomination for Best Supporting Role for her role in BuZa.

What I also like: it's a miniseries. Four episodes and then it's done. Because of that, you know that an unusually large amount of love, attention, and care has been put into this series and that every comma, what am I saying, semicolon has been thought through. I would almost start using an exclamation mark.

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