The Window

9 Peter Rotthier gives "The Window - First Episode" a 9. Written by Peter Rotthier on November 8, 2021. THE WINDOW 51 The Window - First Episode

The Window is set in the shadowy world of football agents.

With the international series The Window we enter the football world. Don't expect to see the game for yourself right away, because you won't see a single ball roll in the entire first episode. If you take that statement literally, then not, but this series takes you into the world of football brokers and figuratively the ball does roll.

Jordan himself turns out to be the victim of the entire game that is played in the background, judging by the opening scene that takes place in the near future.

Everything revolves around Jordan Burnett (Samuel Jordan, Sex Education ), a 17-year-old promising footballer who plays for Athletic in Great Britain. His brother Kieran (Tommy Bastow, The Crossing ) is his manager and he tries to sell his brother to a big foreign club for a lot of money. However, that is not to the liking of the Chinese owner of Athletic, Jae-Yeon Cho (Teo Yoo, Chocolate ), who does not like to see the young striker leave and will do anything for it. The problem is that Jordan does not yet have a professional contract and can therefore freely choose where he goes.

The viewer is already introduced in the first episode to a lot of unsavory practices that are apparently common in the world of football agents. Jordan himself eventually turns out to be the victim of the entire game that is played in the background, judging by the opening scene that takes place in the near future.

Many series use their pilot to introduce the characters to the viewers. The Window does that too, but the series wastes little time to immediately put those characters in the picture. In a short time they manage to present these characters in their full regalia. By this I mean that the character of the respective characters is formed immediately and that one does...