Even though I am a foreigner and may not understand some country-specific trifles (not many, though), I was greatly entertained by this series. The story evolves gradually, bringing a lot of fun and laughter into the crime plot. It can shock at some points revealing hidden side stories or plot twisters that may force you to reconsider your point of view on certain topics. It tells you the "do not mess with women" story in a hilarious way leaving a lot of room for intelligent digestion, too. It is also not too long (10 episodes of around 1 hour each) so you don't get tired of it. And - something rare nowadays - it has an actual end so you don't go to bed wandering what the next season may bring. You can sleep tide afterwards - the riddle has been solved. Loved it!
Add a Review
-
KasiaMal19 November 2014
-
Tweekums9 September 2016Jean-Claude Delcorps was possibly the most unpleasant person in Belgium and now he is dead. The authorities have accepted that there was no foul play but the Dewitt brothers, whose company insured Jean-Claude, are determined to find somebody to blame so they won't have to pay up. Their suspicion falls on Jean-Claude's long suffering wife, Goedele, and her four sisters; Veerle, Eva, Bekka and Bibi.
Over the course of the series we see that not only did each of the four sisters have several motives they actually try to kill Jean-Claude! Their early plans don't succeed but frequently cause collateral damage. The more one learns about Jean-Claude the more one is likely to think he deserves what we know is ultimately coming he is a truly vile man who treats his wife appallingly and takes pleasure in ruining the lives of others.
Thanks to 'Walter Presents' we in Britain have been spoilt when it comes to foreign language programmes lately and this is one of the most fun. It contains a great mystery; we have so many suspects to choose from each with plenty of reasons to commit murder. We also have great characters; Jean-Claude makes the perfect victim as he is so horrible Dirk Roofthooft does a great job keeping him believably unpleasant without becoming a pantomime villain. Barbara Sarafian, Kristine Van Pellicom, Ruth Becquart, Maaike Neuville and Inge Paulussen are equally impressive as the five sisters; they had a great chemistry and the scenes where the four 'In-Laws' sit around plotting how to kill Jean-Claude were a lot of fun one couldn't help hoping that they will get away with it; assuming that it ultimately emerges that they killed him. When we do finally learn what happened the revelation is most satisfactory and gives the series a solid conclusion. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to anybody looking for a mystery with plenty of laughs.
These comments are based on watching the series in Belgian Dutch with English subtitles. -
ankawitska15 November 2021The roles and acting are sublime You automatically speculate.
The role of brother in law makes your hands itch 😀... Realy entertaining and hilarious Loved it! -
norbert-plan-618-71581324 April 2022This Belgian series can be enjoyed without stopping. It tells how three sisters kill their brother-in-law because he is horrible to their fourth sister, to them, but to everyone. What we understand with each episode: the character is a terrorist and obnoxious with everyone.
The tone is black humor, with Flemish Belgian exoticism, and the film takes advantage of its length to develop a universe where each character has its dramatic arc to characterize him and his relationship to others, and of course his relationship to the ugly brother-in-law. With one of the dramatic arcs is the investigation that the insurers lead (the ugly brother-in-law had a life insurance, the insurer investigating, because he suspects a murder and not an accidental death).
The series and the script are subtly arranged so that it only explains at the very end of the tenth episode how the ugly brother-in-law died and who killed him, with all the previous time and different episodes used for various leads that make each of the characters may have a reason to kill him. As the series progresses, the possibilities increase.
This ensemble is served by a superb cast, led by the four sisters: Barbara Sarafian, Kristine Van Pellicom, Maaike Neuville and Ruth Becquart. The cast is one of the qualities of the series.
It is on this duration that the series format takes its interest, by diluting and multiplying the dramatic arcs. This is difficult to do on a film format of reasonable length (less than one hundred minutes).