Zembla: Season 2024
Season 30 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 Zembla Season 29.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 30 Progress Shield
Arbeid op bestelling
Jan 14, 2024 · 41 min
What is the position of migrant workers in the Netherlands? The research into the answer to this question started last summer in Boxtel, Brabant. There, angry citizens are diametri
Opgebrand
Feb 11, 2024 · 40 min
The fire brigade responds hundreds of times a day to incidents: entrapments in traffic accidents, drownings, suicides and many resuscitations. The almost daily confrontation with d
De pekingeenden van Gelderland
Feb 10, 2024 · 39 min
Every year, millions of Peking ducks are slaughtered at the duck slaughterhouse in Ermelo, a slaughterhouse that is part of a headache file for the Gelderland municipality: odor nu
Glyfosaat, de goedkeuring van gif
Apr 14, 2024 · 42 min
Many farmers say they cannot do without glyphosate. The pesticide is very effective and therefore the most used weed killer in the world. But how safe is glyphosate? Scientists who
De ATM-route
May 26, 2024 · 44 min
Zembla receives a tip at the end of 2023. In a drug district in Copenhagen where a gang war is raging, an ATM with a Dutch link has been spotted. In Denmark there are concerns that
Adoptiebedrog, het einde?
Jun 23, 2024 · 50 min
Research into intercountry adoption led to revelations of falsified files, large-scale fraud and even the existence of baby farms. In 2021, researchers indicated in a report that t
De wraak van Trump
Sep 15, 2024 · 44 min
Trump has never made it a secret that he plans to take revenge on his opponents during his possible second term. A complete plan is already ready for the implementation of that pre
Glyfosaat, de pr-machine van de pesticide-industrie
Sep 29, 2024 · 42 min
After approval of glyphosate in the pesticide industry in Europe, the controversial weedkiller is being investigated. Scientists' concerns about cancer and Parkinson's disease are
De schaduwvloot
Oct 13, 2024 · 39 min
Rusty oil tankers full of Russian oil sail through the North Sea. Their owners and insurance are unclear, even as they transport millions of tons of sanctioned merchandise. Putin's
Het cannabisbedrog (1/2): de fraude
Oct 27, 2024 · 42 min
From 2020 onwards, large groups of investors will invest in JuicyFields, an online platform that promises high profits on medicinal cannabis. E-growers buy plants from behind their
Het cannabisbedrog (2/2): de Russen
Nov 10, 2024 · 42 min
Journalists from Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands reveal one of the biggest online frauds: JuicyFields. This platform lured investors with high returns from medicinal c
De onverzekerden
Nov 24, 2024 · 39 min
The Cabinet wants to make significant cuts in care for the uninsured, while the number is increasing. Many uninsured people are migrant workers without work and housing, undocument
Mijn kind is geen pakketje
Dec 8, 2024 · 39 min
Transporting children to special education has been difficult for years. Children are picked up late or not at all, drivers change often and travel times are sometimes very long. A
Beroepsziekte niet erkend
Dec 22, 2024 · 41 min
Every year, around 3,000 people die in the Netherlands due to exposure to hazardous substances at work. Many become ill and have to struggle for years for recognition. Employers ar