The Window (2021)

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Peter Rotthier gives "The Window - First Episode" a 9.
Written by Peter Rotthier on November 8, 2021.
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The Window - First Episode

The Window is set in the shadowy world of football agents.

With the international series The Window we enter the football world. Don't expect to see the game for yourself right away, because you won't see a single ball roll in the entire first episode. If you take that statement literally, then not, but this series takes you into the world of football brokers and figuratively the ball does roll.

Jordan himself turns out to be the victim of the entire game that is played in the background, judging by the opening scene that takes place in the near future.

Everything revolves around Jordan Burnett (Samuel Jordan, Sex Education ), a 17-year-old promising footballer who plays for Athletic in Great Britain. His brother Kieran (Tommy Bastow, The Crossing ) is his manager and he tries to sell his brother to a big foreign club for a lot of money. However, that is not to the liking of the Chinese owner of Athletic, Jae-Yeon Cho (Teo Yoo, Chocolate ), who does not like to see the young striker leave and will do anything for it. The problem is that Jordan does not yet have a professional contract and can therefore freely choose where he goes.

The viewer is already introduced in the first episode to a lot of unsavory practices that are apparently common in the world of football agents. Jordan himself eventually turns out to be the victim of the entire game that is played in the background, judging by the opening scene that takes place in the near future.

Many series use their pilot to introduce the characters to the viewers. The Window does that too, but the series wastes little time to immediately put those characters in the picture. In a short time they manage to present these characters in their full regalia. By this I mean that the character of the respective characters is formed immediately and that one does not keep spinning around the pot for too long.

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The pilot also immediately provides a good portion of action, both with underhand machinations and with straightforward violence. It quickly becomes clear that a big game of tug-of-war is in the works to bring in Jordan Burnett. Whether there will be winners at the end of the story is doubtful judging by the intro to The Window . But we can be sure that it will be a captivating journey.

Flemish (and some Dutch) viewers will also see a lot of Flemish actors in The Window . There are roles for Lynn Van Royen ( Beau Séjour ), Louis Talpe ( Spitsbroers ), Jef Hellemans ( Over Water ) and Glen Wouters ( Home†
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About the author, Peter Rotthier

Peter Rotthier rolled into music journalism in the early 1990s. For almost twenty years he was editor-in-chief of a Flemish rock/metal magazine that, in addition to music, also had an eye for peripheral phenomena such as games, films, series and comics. In the more than fifty years that he has been on this planet, he has already seen many series pass in review. All genres can pique his interest and get some episodes to prove himself. His favorites over the years have included Braquo, Black Sails, Games Of Thrones, The Leftovers, Mafiosa, The Brink and Hell On Wheels, to name a few.