Discovering the Dark Side of My Brother: A Review of Netflix's White Lines

Discovering the Dark Side of My Brother: A Review of Netflix's White Lines (c) Netflix

 Starting with Joey Walker's narration that the truth could be devastating, Netflix's White Lines is a mystery thriller where Joey, a librarian in Manchester, becomes a quasi-detective trying to unravel the secrets of her dead brother. She is plagued by long-term psychological trauma due to her brother's disappearance, but with the discovery of his body, she sees an opportunity to let go of her pain. The scene that caught my attention at the beginning of the drama is where Joy Walker looks straight into the camera and talks to the viewer as if she were filming a documentary. It also shows the mental difficulties she faces due to her depression.

As Joey slowly approaches the Calafat family, who rule the island, and Axel's DJ friends, who were closely related to her brother Axel 20 years ago, the dark secrets of Ibiza, a city of splendid DJ festivals, are revealed, including drugs and profane taboos. For the past 20 years, her older brother in her memory was a perfect model who left in search of his own life, but as she searches for the culprit on the island of Ibiza, she discovers a different side of her brother.

The Netflix White Lines, created by Money Heist's Álex Pina, mixes various genre elements and materials. It is a mystery detective featuring a female detective who works as a British librarian and her ripped assistant with a Mediterranean vibe, a crime film featuring a protagonist involved in a drug case, a Friends with Benefits film dealing with a married woman's affair, a tragedy dealing with the Oedipus complex, a celebrity personal life drama about the end of a self-conscious man and a coming-of-age movie about a woman trying to escape from her past trauma. All kinds of elements are jumbled together, like drugs that constantly appear in the drama.

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