No, this is not "just another show of anti-white racism" as one reviewer wrote. Yes, it is about a ruling class, which in the Netherlands just happens to be white. But it's not an indictment of the (white) Dutch people as a whole. It's about how mechanisms to deal with guilt (literally expelling it in the show) are necessary to obtain and keep power. And the context is a society in which power has been inherited from those involved in the slave trade, which happens to be a historical fact for the Netherlands but is not really the point. The message is broader. In the show, powerful people kill themselves when the mechanisms to cope with their guilt are stripped from them and they have to confront the terrible things they have done to obtain or keep their power.
I agree with others that the show started off a little slow but as a whole was quite well done, well acted and well told.
I agree with others that the show started off a little slow but as a whole was quite well done, well acted and well told.