The first distinctive part of the Ferry series shows that you can be the protagonist of the eight chapters without having to react to the traditional canon of male beauty. You only have to look at a photo of actor Frank Lammers to see it. Secondly, it explains step by step how to industrially produce a psychoactive substance derived from amphetamines (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and synthesize it in laboratories to produce Ecstasy, an essential drug in the plot of the series, which in turn is the drug prequel to Operation Ecstasy with the same protagonists, and whose acceptance by the population justified the production of three seasons.
The Belgian-Dutch co-production, available on Netflix, tells the unstoppable rise of Ferry Bouman, a skilled and ruthless criminal who longs to become the most important drug trafficker in the region, the territory of Brabant, a wish that he makes come true the help of family and friends. and of course with the consolidated demand for the product, but not before verifying that survival in these areas requires complete ruthlessness, including cooperation with the police if it means they can stay in the breach.
If there is any doubt about the consequences of globalization on social habits and customs, we point out that the worldwide distributors of Ferry’s drugs are a motorcycle gang, clones of the American Hell’s Angels, and that the main setting is a prefabricated campsite houses, something that is also characteristic of a population like that of the United States, accustomed to a certain nomadism of work. Bouman will achieve his goal of becoming the lord and master of drugs, the American way of life will continue to be exported and the viewer will be entertained with a more than correct series: everyone is happy.
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