Dood Spoor - Season 1

In Dood Spoor everything revolves around Ed Bex's eating disorder. When the man tastes something, he gets to see the whole history of what he puts in his mouth. Ed Bex is blessed with a very unusual eating disorder. When he puts something in his mouth, he gets to see what happened to that item. He uses that gift for his company De Laatste Groet, with which he reconstructs the last hours of a deceased person. A sip of the last glass of wine, a lick of the toothbrush or a bite of the stew that is still left in the cooking pot. You can't think of anything that Ed doesn't use for the reconstruction that he offers to the relatives.



In this way he comes into contact with a forensic doctor and Ed gets entangled in the investigation into a serial killer. For seven episodes we are presented with dark humor, interspersed with a murder investigation and a mountain of peripheral information, which allows you to see the direction the investigation is likely to take, but not a single potential suspect comes into the sights of the police, except Ed himself. This is mainly because the police inspector in charge of the investigation gets wind of Bex's extreme eating disorder and draws certain conclusions from it.



Anyone who has been paying attention will have wondered, why is there talk of seven episodes here? Doesn't Dood Spoor cover eight episodes? That's right, but for seven episodes you are presented with a story that is strongly constructed, in which the acting is good and when the climax is supposed to come in the final episode, that ending turns out to be disappointing. However, I can hardly go into this in more detail because it is not fun if everyone knows who the murderer is, everyone already knows how Ed got that disorder and such. That eighth episode is largely of the same quality as everything that came before, only the conclusion does not fit into the whole.