# Dirty Lines (2022)

> In 1987 Amsterdam, a psychology student takes a side job at Teledutch, a firm running Europe's first erotic phone lines, as house music and XTC transform the city.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/88032

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 50 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Pieter Bart Korthuis
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Joy Delima, Minne Koole, Chris Peters, Charlie Dagelet, Abbey Hoes, Benja Bruijning, Yari van der Linden, Julia Akkermans
- TMDB rating: 7.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14859224/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: hedonistic, sensual, restless, nostalgic, morally ambiguous

## What critics say

Critics find Dirty Lines a glossy, sensual period piece with a strong sense of place, though its storytelling is thinner than its style.

## Synopsis

Dirty Lines (2022) is a Dutch period drama series created by Pieter Bart Korthuis for Netflix. Psychology student Marly Salomon (Joy Delima) takes a side job at Teledutch, a fast-growing firm founded by brothers Frank Stigter (Minne Koole) and Ramon Stigter (Chris Peters), which launched Europe's first erotic telephone lines. The engine of the show is the whiplash of sudden wealth: the brothers become rich overnight, and Marly is pulled deeper into a world where anonymous desire is sold by the minute while the family and business ties around her strain. Each episode moves through the bright, reckless energy of late 1980s Amsterdam, where house music and the new drug XTC feed a generation eager to celebrate life to its fullest as the Cold War winds down. The series runs six episodes of roughly fifty minutes, a single contained season rather than a long saga. Its tone is glossy and sensual, with a restless, hedonistic edge and an undercurrent of unease about who pays for the boom. Viewers who enjoy the sensual nightlife of The Deuce or the retro business ambition of Halt and Catch Fire will find a similar appetite for period excess and moral ambiguity.

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