Undercover: Belgium, Borderlands and the Ordinary Face of Crime

Undercover turns the Belgian-Dutch border into a world of caravans, lies and quiet danger. Crime hides in ordinary places, where friendliness can be part of the trap.
Discovering Europe through television
Discovering Europe through television

Undercover turns the Belgian-Dutch border into a world of caravans, lies and quiet danger. Crime hides in ordinary places, where friendliness can be part of the trap.

Belgium in Salamander is not the chocolate-box Belgium people like to imagine. This is not a soft postcard of pretty squares, waffles and romantic old buildings. This is Belgium behind closed doors. Offices. Banks. Files. Families with names that carry…

Mademoiselle Holmes reminds us that detective stories can be clever without becoming heavy.

Paris has been filmed thousands of times, yet Lupin still finds a way to make it feel like you've never seen it before.

Le Bureau des Légendes proves that the best spy stories aren't about action—they're about identity.

A French detective series set in Paris, but not the postcard version of Paris. *Astrid et Raphaëlle* is about crime, yes, but even more about pattern, difference, and the quiet work of understanding someone whose mind reads the world differently. Astrid notices what others miss, while Raphaëlle crashes through life with instinct and noise. Together, they become one of the most human detective duos on television.

There are cities that behave politely in a TV series.They give you a nice view, a few pretty streets, a church, a balcony, maybe a coffee cup in the sun. Naples is not that kind of city. In Mina Settembre,…

Petra isn't just living among moving boxes—she's living with the feeling that she never quite arrived. It's a small detail that quietly reveals everything about her.

Blanca is not written as a lesson in bravery or pity. She is clever, stylish, difficult, funny, independent, and fully alive. Through colour, confidence, work, friendship, and the way she moves through Genoa, *Blanca* gives us a detective who does not live in darkness, but keeps arriving in colour.