Director: Jeroen Dumoulein
What happens after a corrupt cop's body washes up dead on a beach — and he opens his eyes anyway? "Styx" builds its entire premise on that impossible moment, then lets the mystery spiral outward from there.
What is Styx about?
Adapted from Bavo Dhooge's international bestseller, "Styx" begins where most crime shows end: a body on the sand, a case that should already be closed. Except the man in question, a policeman with a well-earned reputation for corruption, is somehow still moving, still seeing, still very much aware — despite having no pulse to speak of. The series uses that unresolved, unnatural state as its engine, following him back into the same corrupt networks and unfinished business that likely got him killed in the first place. Rather than playing its horror elements for shock value, the show folds them into a slow-burn crime investigation, using the character's strange new condition to peel back layers of a case that involves people who assumed he was gone for good. It's a series more interested in dread and consequence than in jump scares, built around a protagonist who is, in every sense, running out of time.
Cast & crew
Sebastien Dewaele takes on the central role, playing a man caught between two states of being with a controlled, unsettling stillness. Loes Haverkort and Koen De Bouw fill out the surrounding cast of colleagues and connections whose own pasts start to surface as the investigation deepens.
Context & significance
The series comes from Belgian director Jeroen Dumoulein and adapts Flemish author Bavo Dhooge's novel of the same name, part of a body of crime fiction known for blending police procedure with darker, near-supernatural undertones. Each episode runs a tight 35 minutes, keeping the pace closer to a thriller than a slow character drama.
Where & how to watch
"Styx" is available on K-Time with a free account login, offered with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles for viewers who'd rather follow the story in Farsi, on a platform built around a Persian-language experience for the diaspora.