Friday, September 24, 2021

Masterpiece Theatre: Van der Valk aired September 20, 2020 episode 2 titled Only In Amsterdam aired 9/20/2020

     Van der Valk doesn’t want to be disturbed by a phone call from Hassell.  He’s involved in a pool game and that is much more important!!  Meanwhile, a young woman is studying religious imagery at the famous Gilbert Library's spiritual center. Soon after she heads out to meet someone at a hotel.  This person turns out to be a murderer!!  The next morning, De Vries and Clooves watch video footage.  Hassell sets out to investigate the victim.  She is Aamina Jabara and she was found by the cleaners who came to the hotel room.  Unusually, she has a twin sister.


     It is confirmed that the person who booked the room was Francis Rakoczy.  Spiritual center leader Klaas Gilbert says at first that he doesn’t know Aamina?  His assistant Janneke Paulis states that she came in regularly to the center.  Rakoczy is not a researcher but an ancient alchemist.  The drug ayahuasca was found in Aamina’s system and this would have caused her to be tripping when she died.  5* (I liked this series)  


90 min directed by Max Porcelijn, written by Chris Murray and Nicolas Freeling with Marc Warren, Maisie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Darrell D’Dilva, Emma Fielding, Taj Atwal, Juliet Aubrey.


Note:  Imdb * out of 10* with 290 reviews, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 67 global reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 77% with 13 critic ratings.  

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