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I'm a Dutchman, I was born in 1966, my parents 40 years before me in 1926 and their parents 36 years before them in 1890. In our family we lost members during those years. So as you might imagine I was raised and educted with what happened during those days. Even though my family's origins lie in Rotterdam, I reckognize a lot of what my (grand)parents told me.

No1 thought the war would come to The Netherlands and all of a sudden it was there. And once it was, it got from bad to worse and worser.

But my parents were relatively young when it all started and when I asked my mother what it was like in those days she said: "Kind of exciting". I guess the burden of that hell fell to the older generation. But due to my upbringing the stories my family told me are ingrained in my memories.

This series managed to capture a lot of what I've been told and was educated in school (when they still thought WWII was important). What a hell it must have been. Always worrying about the next day, the food, wood to burn your stove (1944 was a really really cold winter). And in 1944 every1 thought "we" would get liberated, but it took the Allied until 1945 to set the whole of Holland free.

I guess there's no arguing over taste and seeing the high ratings apparently my taste differs a lot from the majority. I found the first episode slow and boring but decided to keep going because of the rating this series has. But episode 2 didn't rang any happy bells for me either. For me there's no cohesion and a lack of continuity and missing excitement. I've seen a lot of references to the old series Columbo, which I watched +/- 40 years ago (in The Netherlands it was broadcasted years later) but Columbo was watchable, a bit predictable but with funny characters. I fail to recognise any of that in this series and also missed any valid references.

Maybe it's my age (57) but if you think after watching episode 1 that it is as boring as I did, don't pain yourself with watching any more episodes. Concerning my rating of 5; I thought a 1 would make a bigger statement but that would be way to harsh and I guess others would do it the other way around too. That's the big flaw in the rating system. Anyway, as I said no arguing over taste but rating this with a 10 is really way over the top.

It's too bad we can't rate with 0.5 points because I would have given this a 7.5 but after looking at the numbers and other reviews I decided on an 8. This is a typical example of politized scoring and reviewing. This series shows and discusses the institutional racism that is present everywhere in the world and unfortunately everywhere in the police force(s). I'm Dutch, I live in Spain and lived in Italy, England, Austria and I've seen it everywhere. We can deny or ignore it, but deep down we all know it exists. But a part of the ppl get offended by this, not because it's not true, but they choose not to see it.

These series is way better than it's get credited for by the users. It's not great but aboslutely not a 6.2 the score it had when I (re)viewed it.