A brand-new Dutch show is coming to Netflix set in the hedonistic world of Amsterdam in the 1980s. Dirty Lines is due to hit the platform on 8 April 2022 at 8am and will follow the story of a student who joins one of the first erotic phone lines in Europe at a time of huge social change in the Netherlands.
The new series was created by Pieter Bart Korthuis, who has also worked on Black Widow, Red Widow and Vechtershart. While Pieter also directs and wrote for the show, it also features writing contributions from Franky Ribbens (Hollands Hoop), Lotte Tabbers (Captain Nova) and Tijs van Marle (Speech).
The new show is based on a novella called 06-Cowboys by Fred Saueressig. Read on to find out more.
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What is Dirty Lines about?
The Netflix official synopsis tells us, "The story of Dirty Lines starts in 1987's Amsterdam, at a time when Dutch society was changing rapidly. Psychology student Marly Salomon takes on a side job working for a brand new firm: Teledutch - a company started by two brothers, Frank and Ramon Stigter, who established Europe's first erotic telephone lines."
"Frank and Ramon become rich overnight and Marly finds herself immersed in this wild and rapid transformation. The final years of the Cold War sparked a sense of hope and inspired a new generation to celebrate life to its fullest."
"Amsterdam became the center of that cultural revolution with a radically new form of music: house and a new love drug: XTC. The erotic phone lines offer the opportunity to experience anonymous sex in a new way, changing the morality of its consumers, but also very much the people creating it."
Who is in the Dirty Lines cast?
Dirty Lines features a cast that has starred in various films and TV series in the past. Benja Bruijning has appeared in the romantic comedy Family Way opposite Carice van Houten (who was in Game of Thrones), and Joy Delima has appeared in Flikken Rotterdam, Meskina and is scheduled to play the lead in a new series called The Crash later in the year.
The full cast for Dirty Lines includes:
- Joy Delima
- Minne Koole
- Chris Peters
- Charlie Chan Dagelet
- Abbey Hoes
- Benja Bruijning
- Yari van der Linden
- Julia Akkermans
