Season 1 and in particualar season 2 of The Missing were fabulous. This is a little bit below par compared to that. The flashbacks timeline has been totally let go this season, which is a shame really. Mind, it is still way better than the endless drivel that we get from american tv producers.
The scenery (read the Red Light District) in Amsterdam is filmed in all its 'glory' and the actors do an adequate performance, but what bothers me the most in this series is the Belgians.
In american shows, foreigners, Germans or whatever are often played played by american actors, pretending to be german and speaking german, which is ofcourse horrible to any native speaker.
In seasons 1 and 2 of The Missing that was one of the things i enjoyed the most, Germans speaking German, French speaking French, and done by native Germans and French.
They continue to do that reasonably well here aswell, native Romanians speaking Romanian. Baptiste speaking the occasional french BUT, the Amsterdam Police Department is literally infested with Belgians. Belgians are the sweetest people in the world, and yes they speak Dutch (sort of), but their dialect is literally totally unintelligable for large parts of the Dutch population, and even when speaking standard dutch, like here, it is still unmistakenly Flemish. Amsterdam has a very distinct dialect of its own, so to have the Comissioner walking around speaking flemish-dutch is absurd and a travesty really. By Dutch Law, police officers must have the dutch nationality, so to have a bunch of Belgians walking around police HQ is just silly.
In addition, in this episode the Comissioner (belgian) sends her son, the boy-police-officer (also belgian) to Antwerp to conduct a search. Antwerp is a 2 hour drive from Amsterdam and actually in Belgium, where they obviously have no jurisdiction. Why Antwerp, and why not Rotterdam for example, which is in the Netherlands and less than an hours driva away.
How hard can it be to cast a couple native actors from Amsterdam and put them in a police suit. That would have been authentic. For the rest the season seems to be ramping up now so apart from the belgians it is still highly recommendable.