Hotel Beau Séjour (also just Beau Séjour) is a Dutch-language Belgian supernatural crime drama television series, created by Bert Van Dael, Sanne Nuyens and Benjamin Sprengers, and directed by Nathalie Basteyns and Kaat Beels. It began airing on Belgian channel Eén on 1 January 2017 and on Arte in France, Germany and French-speaking Belgium on 2 March. It debuted on Netflix in some countries on 16 March 2017.
A second season was confirmed for the series in November 2017.
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Synopsis
In the village Lanklaar, in Limburg, Maasland, near Belgium's Dutch border, Belgian teenager Kato Hoeven (Lynn Van Royen) awakens at the small Hotel Beau Séjour to find a bloody corpse in the bathtub - her own. She has no memory of the day before her death or why she was there. She soon discovers that five people are able to see her and communicate with her as she desperately tries to find out who was responsible for her murder and why they killed her.
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Cast
Victim
- Lynn Van Royen - Kato Hoeven, teenaged murder victim
People that can see Kato
- Kris Cuppens - Luc Hoeven, Kato's father
- Charlotte Timmers - Sofia Otten, Kato's 18-year-old stepsister
- Joke Emmers - Ines Anthoni, Kato's friend
- Johan van Assche - Alexander Vinken, local 'crooked' cop
- Joren Seldeslachts - Charlie Vinken, Alexander's son
Kato's Family
- Inge Paulussen - Kristel Brouwers, Kato's mother
- Jan Hammenecker - Marcus Otten, Kristel's husband and Kato's stepfather
- Guus Bullen - Cyril Otten, Kato's 12-year-old stepbrother
- Reinhilde Decleir - Renee Brouwers, Kato's maternal grandmother
Police
- Roel Vanderstukken - Bart Blom, local police officer and Alexander's partner
- Katrin Lohmann - Marion Schneider, federal police detective who is the lead investigator into Kato's death
- Mieke De Groote - Dora Plettinckx, federal police detective
Other
- Tiny Bertels - Hild Jacobs, Alexander's wife and Charlie's mother
- Maarten Nulens - Leon Vinken, Kato's boyfriend, a motocross racer
- Barbara Sarafian - Melanie Engelenhof, Leon's mother, Alexander's widowed sister-in-law and owner of the Hotel Beau Séjour
Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
Production
The series was shot on location at the real Hotel Beau Séjour ("Nice Stay") in Dilsen-Stokkem. The father of series co-creator Nathalie Basteyns stayed at the hotel 10 years before the show was created, and it made an impression upon him. Basteyns and Kaat Beels conceived the idea for the series immediately after this, when the child murders of serial killer Marc Dutroux were still fresh in people's minds. They elected to add a supernatural element to the story to set it apart from other similar neo-noir dramas currently airing. Lynn Van Royen, who portrays teenager Kato, was 28 and pregnant with her second child during the shoot. The creators and producers hope to make the series an anthology, with a different dead character in each season.
A second season was announced in November 2017. Sanne Nuyens, Bert Van Dael and Roel Mondelaers will return as writers. For the second season, the writers received a subsidy of 25,000 euros from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.
Reception
Hotel Beau Séjour has been well received by critics, with particular praise for Lynn Van Royen's portrayal of the murdered Kato. John Doyle of The Globe and Mail compared it favorably to the first season of HBO's True Detective, calling it "a remarkably textured, slow-burning and compelling murder mystery." The Los Angeles Times called Hotel Beau Séjour a "worthy new addition to a crowded streaming field of moody European crime thrillers."
American horror master Stephen King praised the series on Twitter, calling Hotel Beau Séjour "Eccentric, brilliant, and strangely touching. Supernatural fare for those who don't ordinarily like it."
References
External links
- Hotel Beau Séjour on IMDb
- Official website at Eén
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