Baptiste (TV Series) For Blood (2019) User Reviews

This gets better and better.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 25 March 2019]

It feels like this show is just getting better and better. Another hugely impressive episode, whilst it perhaps lacked some of the big shock value from the previous episode, it more then made up for in storytelling, loose strands seemed to knit together, with random moments and events now having relevance. It's now so much more then just the case of Nathalie.

Amsterdam looks incredibly good, I love the array of European actors, the fact it's subtitled partly is forcing me to concentrate.

Also a big revelation for Baptiste, it was delivered in a fairly subtle way, such moments often turn into soaps, but this was well done. Jessica Raine is a great addition.

Loving it. 9/10

Whats with the belgians?

[BillClinton48 · 8/10 · 27 February 2023]

Season 1 and in particualar season 2 of The Missing were fabulous. This is a little bit below par compared to that. The flashbacks timeline has been totally let go this season, which is a shame really. Mind, it is still way better than the endless drivel that we get from american tv producers.

The scenery (read the Red Light District) in Amsterdam is filmed in all its 'glory' and the actors do an adequate performance, but what bothers me the most in this series is the Belgians.

In american shows, foreigners, Germans or whatever are often played played by american actors, pretending to be german and speaking german, which is ofcourse horrible to any native speaker.

In seasons 1 and 2 of The Missing that was one of the things i enjoyed the most, Germans speaking German, French speaking French, and done by native Germans and French.

They continue to do that reasonably well here aswell, native Romanians speaking Romanian. Baptiste speaking the occasional french BUT, the Amsterdam Police Department is literally infested with Belgians. Belgians are the sweetest people in the world, and yes they speak Dutch (sort of), but their dialect is literally totally unintelligable for large parts of the Dutch population, and even when speaking standard dutch, like here, it is still unmistakenly Flemish. Amsterdam has a very distinct dialect of its own, so to have the Comissioner walking around speaking flemish-dutch is absurd and a travesty really. By Dutch Law, police officers must have the dutch nationality, so to have a bunch of Belgians walking around police HQ is just silly.

In addition, in this episode the Comissioner (belgian) sends her son, the boy-police-officer (also belgian) to Antwerp to conduct a search. Antwerp is a 2 hour drive from Amsterdam and actually in Belgium, where they obviously have no jurisdiction. Why Antwerp, and why not Rotterdam for example, which is in the Netherlands and less than an hours driva away.

How hard can it be to cast a couple native actors from Amsterdam and put them in a police suit. That would have been authentic. For the rest the season seems to be ramping up now so apart from the belgians it is still highly recommendable.

For Blood

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 3 March 2019]

Episode 2 finished with both Julien and his wife Celia being in potential danger. In Celia's case the gas meter called around.

Julien finds out more about Edward the man. It is another shift in perception. Edward found Natalie in the red light district who reminded him of his dead daughter. He used to spend time talking to her but Natalie got him involved in taking money from an East European crime gang.

The gang found out about Edward's involvement in the theft and it they who killed his father and delivered his head to Edward. It is for this reason why Edward was frantically searching for Natalie or else he would lose other members of his family.

This episode sees the introduction of Genevieve, a Europol officer who wants Edward to wear a wire.

However it is for Julien and Edward to unite and find the missing money. They find out that Natalie had a son who is living with his father.

A lot of elements have come together as we reach the half way point. The focus becomes more clearer but for Julien, more secrets are revealed.