# Tabula Rasa (2017)

> A young amnesiac woman confined to a psychiatric hospital must reconstruct her lost memories to solve the disappearance of a man she may have been the last to see.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/64945

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 9
- Episode runtime: 50 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, mystery, thriller
- Created by: Malin-Sarah Gozin, Veerle Baetens
- Network: VRT 1
- Cast: Veerle Baetens, Stijn Van Opstal, Jeroen Perceval, Gene Bervoets, Natali Broods, Cécile Enthoven, Hilde Van Mieghem, Peter van den Begin
- TMDB rating: 7.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5197860/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: mild
- Tone: claustrophobic, paranoid, cerebral, bleak, tense

## What critics say

Audiences rate this Belgian psychological thriller positively, valuing its puzzle-box mystery and unsettling psychiatric setting.

## Synopsis

Tabula Rasa (2017) is a Belgian psychological thriller series created by Malin-Sarah Gozin and Veerle Baetens for VRT 1. Veerle Baetens plays Annemie D'Haeze, a young woman with amnesia locked inside a secure psychiatric hospital, where Detective Inspector Wolkers, played by Gene Bervoets, arrives insisting she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre, played by Jeroen Perceval. Her engine is simple and urgent: she must piece together fragments of her recent past, sifting through hospital interviews, half-remembered encounters and the suspicions of everyone around her, before the trail goes cold. Presented as a single nine-episode season of roughly fifty minutes each, the series is one continuing puzzle rather than a case of the week. Its tone is claustrophobic and paranoid, with a cold, interior register where each recovered memory reshapes what the viewer thought they knew. Set in contemporary Flanders, the story moves between the sterile corridors of the clinic and the dark streets of the protagonist's recent life. Fans of Mindhunter, Shutter Island and Dark will find resonance in its slow-burn dread, its institutional confinement and its unreliable recollection of events.

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