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Undercover (2019)

Undercover poster
Genre
drama
Country
Netherlands, Belgium
Length
3 seasons, 28 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 177 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two undercover agents pose as a couple at a campground to infiltrate the operation of a drug kingpin. The story is based on real events and takes place in a border region. The agents must maintain their cover while getting close to their target.

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What happens

Undercover is a Belgian-Dutch Dutch-language crime drama television series starring Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and Frank Lammers. The plot revolves around a story inspired by real-life events, where undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation in Limburg, a Flemish province bordering the Netherlands. The infiltration is executed by two agents, Bob Lemmens (Tom Waes) and Kim de Rooij (Anna Drijver), who are posing as a couple at the campground where the drug kingpin spends his weekends. It is a co-production between Netflix and public Belgium TV station Eén, and was ordered direct-to-series. The first season premiered on Eén on February 24, 2019, in Belgium; its second season was scheduled for a September 6, 2020 release on Eén. The series began streaming on Netflix on May 3, 2019. It was renewed for a second season which premiered on November 8, 2020. Season 3 premiered in November 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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