NR | 4 episodes | thriller | Dec. 15, 2022
The Provisional IRA had a weak grasp of economics, basically adopting the Marxism of their international sponsors, but they understood geography, especially the Limburg region of the Netherlands as the center for their foreign operations, because it bordered Belgium and Germany.
As it was in real-life, coordinating with the law enforcement agencies of all three countries represents a bureaucratic challenge for Limburg-based Jeanine Maes, the lead investigator in this Dutch-language thriller.
Martin de Waard (Michel Sluysmans) and Jeanine Maes (Hadwych Minis) work together to catch a violent IRA gang, in “The Spectacular.” (Topic)
Not surprisingly, she tends to get better results when she goes rogue in writer-directors William Bosch and Pieter Kuijpers’s four-episode series, “The Spectacular.”…