Ferry: The Series

Desperate for funds, Ferry Bouman stumbles upon a golden opportunity when a high-profile bust leaves a vacant position among Brabant's top dealers.

Ferry: The Series (2023) is a Belgian-Dutch crime drama series created by Piet Matthys, Bart Uytdenhouwen and Nico Moolenaar for Netflix. Frank Lammers plays Ferry Bouman, a man desperate for money who stumbles into a golden opportunity when a high-profile bust leaves a vacant position among the top dealers of Brabant. The engine of the series is his precarious balancing act inside a criminal underworld where loyalty is fragile and every deal carries risk, with Elise Schaap as Danielle van Marken and Raymond Thiry as John Zwart among the principal figures around him. Told across a single eight-episode season of roughly forty-six minutes each, it moves as one continuing story rather than a case of the week. The tone is tense, gritty and grounded, with a bleak undercurrent of desperation and compromised ambition. Set in the modern Dutch-speaking south of the Low Countries, it has the gritty texture of a Dutch-language crime saga. Fans of Penoza, Gomorrah and Breaking Bad will find resonance in its portrait of ordinary people pulled into the drug trade.

Audience reception is positive, with viewers rating this single Dutch-language season highly for its gritty crime storyline.

• Penozagritty drug trade crime drama, criminal underworld power struggles, dutch and belgian crime tone
• Breaking Badcrime drama centered on a drug dealer drawn deeper into the trade, serialized criminal underworld
• Gomorraheuropean crime thriller tone, organized crime hierarchy, morally compromised protagonist

Created by

Piet Matthys, Bart Uytdenhouwen, Nico Moolenaar

Release Date

2023-11-03

Episode runtime

46 min

Rating

7.7 / 10 (63)

What is Ferry: The Series about?

A desperate man seizes a vacant post among Brabant's top drug dealers and is drawn into a dangerous criminal underworld.

What is Ferry: The Series like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Ferry: The Series as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.

Is Ferry: The Series violent?

Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Ferry: The Series as moderate.

What did critics think of Ferry: The Series?

Audience reception is positive, with viewers rating this single Dutch-language season highly for its gritty crime storyline.

Which shows are like Ferry: The Series?

Shows with a similar feel include Penoza, Breaking Bad, and Gomorrah.

How long is Ferry: The Series?

Ferry: The Series: 1 season, 8 episodes.

Is Ferry: The Series still running?

No, Ferry: The Series has ended.

Where can I watch Ferry: The Series?

In United States, Ferry: The Series streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.