Hotel Beau Séjour Explained

Genre:
Creator:
  • Bert Van Dael
  • Sanne Nuyens
Director:
  • Nathalie Basteyns
  • Kaat Beels
Country:Belgium
Language:
  • Flemish
  • German
  • Dutch
  • English
Num Seasons:2
Num Episodes:20
List Episodes:Hotel Beau Séjour#Episodes
Runtime:50 minutes
Company:De Mensen
Network:
First Aired:[1]
Last Aired:present

Beau Séjour (the first season is internationally known as Hotel Beau Séjour) is a Flemish-language Belgian supernatural crime drama television series created by Bert Van Dael and Sanne Nuyens, and directed by and . It began airing on the 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.[2] [3] [4]

A second season was confirmed for the series in November 2017,[5] and filming began in 2019. It premiered on Eén on 31 January 2021.

Synopsis

First season: In the Belgian village of Lanklaar in Limburg, near the Dutch border, teenager Kato Hoeven awakes 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 a select few 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.[6]

Second season: Maurice, a Belgian Naval officer, awakes in the middle of a huge storm to discover his own dead body hanging from a mast on his sailboat, Beau Séjour, off the coast of Zeebrugge. Refusing to believe he hanged himself, he must solve his own murder.[7]

Cast and characters

Season 1

Season 2

Episodes

Season 2 (2021)

Production

The series' first season was shot on location at the real Hotel Beau Séjour ("Nice Stay") in Dilsen-Stokkem.[8] The father of series co-creator Nathalie Basteyns stayed at the hotel ten 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. Lynn Van Royen, who portrays teenager Kato, was 28 and pregnant with her second child during the shoot. The creators and producers hoped to make the series an anthology, with a different dead character in each season.[9]

A second season was announced in November 2017, with Sanne Nuyens and Bert Van Dael returning as writers.[5] For the second season, the writers received a subsidy of 25,000 euros from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.[10]

In February 2019, it was announced that the city of Bruges and production house De Mensen had reached an agreement to film the second season in the village of Zeebrugge, a port on the coast of Belgium. Filming began in summer 2019, with Gene Bervoets cast in a leading role.[7] [11] The second season featured a fresh cast and storyline, albeit with a similar premise, of a murder victim trying to solve their own death.[12] In December 2019, it was reported that Bervoets was injured during filming. He was treated at the hospital and released the same day.[13]

Reception

The first season of Hotel Beau Séjour was well received by critics, with particular praise for Lynn Van Royen's portrayal of the murdered Kato.[14] 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."[6] The Los Angeles Times called Hotel Beau Séjour a "worthy new addition to a crowded streaming field of moody European crime thrillers."[15]

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."[16]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Nieuw op Eén: Beau séjour. 28 March 2017. VRT.be. 13 December 2016. nl.
  2. Web site: Every Netflix Original Removed from Netflix. What's on Netflix. 9 July 2021.
  3. News: From Iron Fist to Boardwalk Empire, here's what's new on Netflix, CraveTV and Shudder in March. 29 March 2017. National Post. 1 March 2017. en.
  4. News: Decré. Hanne. "Beau séjour" krijgt miljoenenpubliek op Netflix. 29 March 2017. De Redactie. 24 February 2017.
  5. News: "Beau séjour" krijgt een tweede seizoen. 8 May 2018. VRT NWS. 8 November 2017. nl.
  6. News: Doyle. John. John Doyle: Euro noir is alive and well in the excellent Hotel Beau Séjour. 28 March 2017. The Globe and Mail. 17 March 2017. en-ca.
  7. News: Theuns . Koen . 'Kneusje van de kust' haalt Vlaamse topserie binnen: "Onbetaalbare reclame" . 22 February 2019 . Het Nieuwsblad . 19 February 2019 . nl-BE.
  8. News: Sokol. Kirsten. Maak kennis met de nieuwe zondagavondreeks op Eén: "Beau Séjour". 29 March 2017. De Redactie. 31 December 2016.
  9. News: Nathalie Basteyns (Beau séjour) : "La fiction belge s'exporte bien". 29 March 2017. Le Figaro. 2 March 2017. fr-FR.
  10. News: Er komt een tweede seizoen van Beau Séjour, en dit is de enige manier waarop dat kan lukken. 8 May 2018. NewsMonkey.be. 8 November 2017. 9 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180509013056/http://newsmonkey.be/article/83596. dead.
  11. News: Mitchell . Wendy . 'Beau Sejour 2', Hitler wine comedy among hot TV projects at Connext . 22 February 2019 . Screen . 11 October 2019 . en.
  12. News: Hoofdrol voor Gene Bervoets in tweede seizoen Beau Séjour . 13 January 2020 . . 6 November 2019 . nl.
  13. News: Gene Bervoets reageert na ongeval op set van 'Beau Séjour 2': "Het enige wat nu telt, is rust" . 13 January 2020 . HLN.be . 30 December 2019.
  14. News: Delahaye. Martine. TV : " Beau Séjour ", une morte vivante enquête sur son assassinat. 28 March 2017. Le Monde. 2 March 2017. fr.
  15. News: Barton. Chris. Overrated/Underrated: The Shins' 'Heartworms' buries its strengths while 'Hotel Beau Séjour' is worth checking out. 31 March 2017. Los Angeles Times. 24 March 2017.
  16. News: Thriller-koning Stephen King kijkt Beau Séjour op Netflix en strooit met complimenten. 8 May 2018. NewsMonkey.be. 13 April 2017. 9 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180509012735/http://newsmonkey.be/article/77803. dead.

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