It’s normal to go through a range of emotions if this happens to you. No matter how much you drank or what drugs you took, rape, or sexual assault, it is never your fault. If you’ve been assaulted, it is never your fault. Nearly eleven million women in the United States have been raped while drunk, drugged, or high. Learn what they are, how dangerous they are, and how to prevent them from being used on you or someone you love. But I’m very excited that this show will be available for Netflix’s 117 million members around the world.Date Rape drugs have a new kind of rape threat and have reared its ugly head at parties, campuses, and nightclubs. The major network we got our notes from was VRT in Belgium. It came from the creative team not the networks. The danger was an important element to introduce very early on, but then the humor was my decision. We had a lot of freedom and trust from them in making this story. Netflix boarded “Undercover” in early development, right? ![]() First I wanted to tell an undercover story, then we went to look for a good case for our fictional characters to work on, and we discovered this backdrop of Limburg as one of the ecstasy capitals of the world. On a larger scale, it is a fiction series inspired by several real life cases. There were also sausages right next to the chemicals in the freezer, and that was an image from the start which was very thrilling for me to work with. There was a lab fire and they found a recipe for ecstasy written in Chinese. The Chinese scientists working in a lab was indeed a story we found in an article somewhere. The series paints a portrayal of Belgium’s drugs scene which seems too surreal not to be true. The opening scene of “Undercover” is spoken in Chinese, not Dutch, has a lab worker quarrel with his boss about the awful lab food – sausages – and finally stumble out of the lab shed into not some Beijing industrial sprawl but a placid green fields where the biggest danger is a herd of cows. We would have to push and tell him to suppose it isn’t over, or ask what he would do to keep it going. I think almost every episode he was saying to us that in real life your story would be over, the mission is blown. We had an ex-undercover agent as an adviser, and we built the case together with him. Once the story gets going, the tempo is quite high. I think it’s safe to say there will be a lot of surprises. It’s a slow burn, but once it’s on the rails it gets better and better because of the investment we made in the characters in the beginning. We said let’s take our time to tell the story and remain confident in our characters. In real life there isn’t so much suspense at the beginning of an investigation, an undercover agent just sit waiting for moments to make contact. Another big challenge is to keep it interesting from the start. We wanted to give a little bit of feeling of a cold approach in this undercover case, and that takes some time. One of the biggest challenges was to get the story going. I sense that one of the biggest challenges in “Undercover” was balancing those elements…. “Undercover” has been described as a character-driven suspense thriller. De Mensen, for example, won 2016’s Series Mania with “Beau Séjour,” an out-there flagship for Belgian Noir. Variety talked to Moolenaar about a series which forms part of the building Flemish international series scene. ![]() It is typical of the grounded series which made ”authentic” a buzz-word at this year’s MipTV/Canneseries. Laced with a hallmark hangdog and offbeat Flemish humor, “Undercover” takes the alternative route opened up by “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” where the personal mires the professional. procedurals, characters suppress (“CSI”) or channel (“House”) their personality to raise their professional game. He’s an attentive husband for his insecure wife, and has to put up with his motley team of deadbeats. ![]() In “Undercover,” two Belgian federal agents – Tom Waes (“New Texas”), Anna Drijver (“Love Life”) – are missioned to move in and shut down the operation of Limburg’s biggest ecstasy producer, Ferry Bouman, posing as a couple who rent a chalet on the modest lake-side campsite where Bouman spends his weekends. Just about all the world’s ecstasy is made there,” one character comments in Ep. Limburg, a pastoral part of Belgium, straddling the the Belgium-Dutch border, is “the Colombia of the synthetic drug trade. “Undercover” is also based on true events. Such financing is necessary to power up a budget or more ambitiouss drama wanting to stand out from the crowd. It tapped more funding from the Gallop Tax Shelter and Belgium’s tax shelter. Produced for Flemish pubcaster VRT by Belgium’s De Mensen, in co-production with Dutch FilmWorks, Good Friends, Gardner and Domm, “Undercover” is also backed by not only Netflix and Federation Ent, but Germany’s ZDF.
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