Tabula Rasa

A psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key to this mysterious disappearance. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past.

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.

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

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• Darkserialized mystery built on a missing person and a fragmented past

Created by

Malin-Sarah Gozin, Veerle Baetens

Release Date

2017-10-29

Episode runtime

50 min

Rating

7.9 / 10 (126)

What is Tabula Rasa about?

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.

What is Tabula Rasa like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Tabula Rasa as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.

Is Tabula Rasa violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Tabula Rasa as mild.

What did critics think of Tabula Rasa?

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

Which shows are like Tabula Rasa?

Shows with a similar feel include Mindhunter, Shutter Island, Hidden Figures, and Dark.

How long is Tabula Rasa?

Tabula Rasa: 1 season, 9 episodes.

Is Tabula Rasa still running?

No, Tabula Rasa has ended.