If I wanted to watch a self-important cop who's always smarter than all coworkers, who berates them for being dull tools (which they're not), who eschews good police protocols in favor of hunches that are never wrong, who always notices an inconspicuous clue that turns out to be important in spite of forensics covering the crime scene, who rarely shares a thought process with the team and leaves them hanging on his every word, and who thinks that bluster substitutes for caution, I could watch "Vera." Van der Valk is the latest male version of Vera, minus calling people "pet"and "dear." The stories are complex with intertwined subplots and many characters designed to confuse viewers and convince us that Smiley is a taciturn genius. If you like that sort of thing, watch this series.
Review of Van der Valk
