My wife and I really liked the series for a while, but it went down hill in the second half of the season. The lead detective's behavior became so unstable and unprofessional that it wouldn't have been tolerated. Plus, the ending was rushed and not very believable. We would have given it an 8.0, but dropped it to a 7.0 as the season drew to an end.

I love well told TV-series with some depth, shock or excitement, but this shallow depiction of the citizens of Heiderfeld doesn't move me one bit nor entice me to finish this one off.Yoann Blanc plays the most interesting character (Peeters), but after three episodes I had to give up also him. Everyone else including his daughter Camille, played by Sophie Breyer, are just too boring. I mean boring in the wrong way and I have no problem with slow pacing or anything like that, but I want to be able care at all. As a viewer you just don't care about these people. I don't need to watch something I don't care to learn anything about.Overall the quality of acting is lower than expected, which I suspect stems from the director Matthieu Donck rather than a bad script necessarily. I could see this story unfolding in an interesting way that would have kept my interest. I'm dropping this one. Life's too short and there are so many more interesting stories.

So I've read the reviews comparing it to Twin Peaks and any other show that popped into the reviewer's mind. No, no and thrice no. The detective (Peeters) is inept and doesn't have the basic training which would have ruled out a lot of the red herrings which are metaphorically forced down our throat in this overextended series. As usual in these things then the writers take advantage of current technology when it fits the plot but the poor old detective has to ignore everything other than CCTV when it comes to ascertaining the killer's identity. The final reveal is as stupid as it is unexpected (and also totally unbelievable). So if you're impressed by multi-layered story lines (as I am) then this is interesting, but the fact is that those story lines have to fit together somehow as they did in The Missing, Nobel and other series which are much more worthwhile watching than this. The sudden appearance of character X in place Y is rarely explained, as is the sheer incompetence of the lead detective. This is excusable if the plot takes place in a complete and utter vacuum, but not when it's in the modern day and a reference to Game of Thrones is thrown in. If Peeters had watched half the number of detective shows that I have then he'd have been able to discover the killer's identity within a few hours using GPS data. So 6/10 from me since it was well acted and kept me hooked, but overall it was disappointing.

Will "The Break" remind you of "Twin Peaks"? Yep. How about "Broadchurch" and "True Detective," or the French show "Les Revenants"? Check, and check (and the show's creators have even admitted as much). Okay, now that we've gotten what a bunch of other reviews and interviews have already noted (mostly on French websites), let's get to the execution of the show, and why it's so darn good. And yes, it is really good - in spite of reminding you of Lots of Things That Have Come Before It.The plot: as stated above, there is a soccer player who turns up dead. A brooding detective who is new to town (for reasons that become increasingly clear as the story unfolds) is the chief investigator on the case. That's all I can really say without spoiling anything - and you really have to know as little as possible about this show to enjoy it to the fullest extent. The execution: This is an excellent sort of whodunit, complete with Log Lady-type characters, dark and creepy woods, and lots of other goings-on that are of a highly suspicious nature (David Lynch is chuckling somewhere, that's for sure). I was hooked after one episode - and I mean, hooked. As in, I binged all of these in two days. This surprised me, as I went in having read a couple of lukewarm reviews that implied it might be too similar to the above-referenced shows; it's not. Rest assured that the Belgians have taken some of the greatest elements of these shows and really mixed them into something altogether new and incredibly fun to watch.The story will keep you guessing; the characters are definitely not entirely what they seem, and each episode does one of those super- fun cliffhangers that has you immediately pressing "play the next episode." It's definitely less "produced-looking" and the small townsfolk really look like - well, small townsfolk. Heiderfeld does seem like the kind of place where things are bubbling just underneath the surface. It's a heck of a fun ride and I can't wait for Season Two!FYI for those who are parents, or those who might be squeamish - it's a bit gory (dead bodies up close; lots of blood; scary visions), and as it's a European show, there are a lot of nudity and sex. Fair warning.