Hotel Beau Séjour
What if you had to investigate your own murder? This anthology series follows victims who wake up to find their own dead bodies and have to navigate the limbo between life and death to solve the mystery of who killed them and why.
Details
First Aired: 1/1/2017
Languages: Dutch
Created by: Benjamin Sprengers, Sanne Nuyens
Type: Scripted
Production
VRT 1Companies: deMENSEN
Countries: Belgium
Where to watch · DE
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Seasons
Season 1
Teenage Kato Hoeven wakes up in Hotel Beau Séjour without any recollection of what happened the night before. No one seems to be able to see or hear her except a few select people, but why? Slowly it sinks in: she's dead. Who did this to her? As she investigates her own mysterious death, Kato unravels a web of secrets in her seemingly tranquil village community.
Season 2
Former naval officer Maurice sees his own lifeless body dangling from the mast of his sailboat “Beau Séjour”. He wakes up on the beach hours later, but nobody can see or hear him. He’s dead—apparently, a suicide. What is going on? That his family is glad to be rid of him becomes painfully clear from the harsh, cold reactions of his three daughters and his ex-wife to his death. Maurice starts to investigate his own death. And then he discovers that there are a couple of ‘seers’, people who can still see him and with whom he can talk… but why these people?
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bsnjon
To me, it is shows like this that are the point of the streaming revolution. A Flemish/Belgian production that was never going to be on TV in North America, but now I can easily enjoy this creative take on the “Broadchurch” style crime drama. We have a small community, we have lots of complicated connections between our various characters, and we have a dead young woman, with a few secrets of her own. Now the “twist” here is that our protagonist is going to spend the series solving her own murder. I know this might turn people off, but if you just go with it a bit, you can enjoy this fairly easily. There is no time taken up with a explanations or talk of ghosts, it just happens. And the complications (certain individuals can see and interact with her) are integrated into the script without much fuss. The mystery itself has several suspects, and the police are looking officially in one direction, but unofficially another, which adds to the complications. With young love in the mix, the consequences of the murder and its aftermath grow to envelop the entire town. This is not for everyone but those who enjoy shows like Témoins, The Break, etc. should enjoy this.
