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Backlight: Season 23

7 episodes Premiered Apr 7, 2024 Updated Sep 25, 2026
Previously on Backlight

Season 23 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Backlight Season 22.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 23 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 23: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (3): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S23·E1 Mytharc

Dwarse scheepsbouwers

Apr 7, 2024 · 50 min

After decades of globalization, many industries have disappeared from Europe, but shipbuilder Royal Bodewes on the Winschoterdiep has been keeping its head above water for more tha

S23·E2 Core

Uit de kleren

May 12, 2024 · 58 min

There is now so much clothing in the world that the next six generations can be clothed with it. Four pioneers want to improve the unruly clothing industry. Annemieke Koster produc

S23·E3 Mytharc

Naomi Klein and the pull to the right

Jun 2, 2024 · 58 min

What should progressive Europe do with the big move to the right? How is it possible that the words used by the international right-wing nationalist movement are so similar to thos

S23·E4 Core

Nederland bij de les

Sep 8, 2024 · 50 min

What is going on with our education? The need for tutoring and homework help is greater than ever. Does this create a new gap and greater inequality of opportunity in society? Pare

S23·E5 Core

Bouwen met de boer

Oct 6, 2024 · 51 min

Pioneers work with natural, local materials as arable farmers or in construction. Luc and Wout de Wit grow hemp in Utrecht, among other things, with which they will build biobased

S23·E6 Mytharc

De moeder van alle mythen

Nov 3, 2024 · 50 min

In Dutch society, mothers bear a disproportionate share of the financial, emotional and practical costs of raising the next generation. How did that come about, and is that actuall

S23·E7 Mytharc

Greed is green

Dec 1, 2024 · 50 min

What happens when climate and nature become investment objects? Billions are made by depleting nature, but making money from protecting nature is still difficult. Yet that seems to

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