Name: Zuidas
Genre: Drama
Released: 2018-04-01
Cast: Annet Malherbe, Mark Rietman, Bram Suijker, Guy Clemens, Robert de Hoog

Dutch law firms: where the suits are bespoke and the backstabbing is business casual.

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Latest Episode

48 min

Season 1 • Episode 8

Latest

Episode 8

May 20, 2018

Overview

Drama

Recently graduated law student Sabia is doing everything she can to secure a spot at one of the best law firms. As a young, ambitious lawyer, Sabia faces an unprecedented power game in this status-sensitive world.

NL Dutch

Content warning

class mobility as performanceinstitutional gaslightingambition vs. integritytokenism in elite spaces

Standout Aspects

Acting

Jouman Fattal carries the whole damn thing.

Production

Amsterdam's glass towers never looked this suffocating.

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First AiredApr 1, 2018

StatusCanceled

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Intensitymedium

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Seasons1·Episodes8

Top Cast

Annet Malherbe

Christine Meijer

Mark Rietman

Rudolf van de Sande Grinten

Bram Suijker

Quinten van de Sande Grinten

Guy Clemens

Mark Vermeer

Robert de Hoog

Edwin de Keizer

Jouman Fattal

Sabia Bennani

Noortje Herlaar

Lavinia Vermeer

Sandra Mattie

Angelica

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

The Zuidas district is Amsterdam's actual financial hub—a glass-and-steel symbol of Dutch neoliberalism that the series weaponizes perfectly.

Insight

The show was allegedly canceled due to low viewership, but its depiction of a Moroccan-Dutch woman navigating whiteness-obsessed institutions feels even more pointed now.

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