TV series

Dagboek van een herdershond

1978–1980 · 2 seasons

A quiet, earnest immersion into a young priest's inner life and the slow moral weather of a mining parish.

Overview: In this period drama series, the young, unexperienced Catholic priest Erik Odekerke -who keeps a diary, and is once described as a (pastoral) 'sheperd dog', gets his first assignment, as kapelaan -literally 'chaplain', but in Dutch still in assistant to the parish's curate- in a mining town in Dutch Limburg.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, warm and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Faith, identity, class, work
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: faith
identity
class
work
coming-of-age
Places: small town
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild