{"id":374571,"date":"2026-08-08T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374571"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:16:43","slug":"blind-sherlock-is-now-on-netflix-a-dutch-holmes-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blind-sherlock-is-now-on-netflix-a-dutch-holmes-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Sherlock is now on Netflix: a Dutch Holmes twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blind Sherlock hit Netflix<\/a> on January 23, 2026<\/strong>. It\u2019s a Dutch-language crime drama, six episodes long, with a Sherlock Holmes spin. At the center is Roman Mertens, a blind civilian working in a Rotterdam police wiretap unit, where his extraordinary hearing helps him catch clues in drug cases.<\/p>\n

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Newcomer Bart Kelchtermans plays Roman Mertens, and the role leans hard on those listening skills. He picks up clues, speech patterns<\/strong>, and tiny details other people miss while working inside the Rotterdam police wiretap unit.<\/p>\n\n

Frank Lammers is part of the cast as well. The Holmes element doesn\u2019t come from Roman stepping into a standard detective role, but from the almost absurd level of deduction he brings<\/strong> to the job.<\/p>\n\n

There\u2019s also a real-life angle here. Blind Sherlock is reportedly inspired by Sacha van Loo<\/strong>, a blind civilian who spent more than a decade with the Belgian police wiretapping unit and helped solve hundreds of cases. Showrunner Kristof Hoefkens has said the team wanted to build a police procedural around a blind lead character and present his disability in a positive way, even as a kind of superpower.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re into imported mysteries and Holmes-style stories, this is probably one to put on the list. Early reactions have been split, though: some viewers are singling out Bart Kelchtermans<\/strong> for praise, while others feel the show doesn\u2019t quite live up to how strong the premise sounds on paper.<\/p>\n\n

Blind Sherlock joins Netflix\u2019s Holmes-related lineup<\/a> after The Irregulars, and it arrives just as Prime Video<\/a> is getting Young Sherlock<\/strong> ready.<\/p>\n\n

You can stream Blind Sherlock on Netflix now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blind Sherlock hit Netflix on January 23, 2026. It\u2019s a Dutch-language crime drama, six episodes long, with a Sherlock Holmes spin. At the center is Roman Mertens, a blind civilian working in a Rotterdam police wiretap unit, where his extraordinary hearing helps him catch clues in drug cases. Newcomer Bart Kelchtermans plays Roman Mertens, and … Continue reading “Blind Sherlock is now on Netflix: a Dutch Holmes twist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9329,"featured_media":374570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374572,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374571\/revisions\/374572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374571"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=374571"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=374571"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=374571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}