René Veenstra

Professor of Sociology

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  • Publications
    • In English
    • In Dutch
    • Codebooks
    • Consultancy Reports
    • Book reviews
    • In other languages
  • Media
  • Grants
  • Supervision
    • Current PhD projects
    • Finished PhD projects
    • Master theses
    • PhD Dissertation Committee Member
  • C&V
  • PSO
  • CV
    • Biography in English
      • Management & teaching
      • Reviewing & editing
      • Presentations & conferences
      • Colloquia Department of Sociology 2005-2019
    • Biography in Dutch
      • WALM
      • Inaugural Lecture
      • Dissertation René Veenstra
    • Contact
  • Highlights
    • Movies
      • Series
      • Documentaries
      • Cult Movies
      • Shorts
      • Dutch Movies
      • Children’s Movies
      • Film Lectures
    • Albums
    • Non-fiction books
    • Books
    • Children’s Books
  • Welcome!
  • Publications
    • In English
    • In Dutch
    • Codebooks
    • Consultancy Reports
    • Book reviews
    • In other languages
  • Media
  • Grants
  • Supervision
    • Current PhD projects
    • Finished PhD projects
    • Master theses
    • PhD Dissertation Committee Member
  • C&V
  • PSO
  • CV
    • Biography in English
      • Management & teaching
      • Reviewing & editing
      • Presentations & conferences
      • Colloquia Department of Sociology 2005-2019
    • Biography in Dutch
      • WALM
      • Inaugural Lecture
      • Dissertation René Veenstra
    • Contact
  • Highlights
    • Movies
      • Series
      • Documentaries
      • Cult Movies
      • Shorts
      • Dutch Movies
      • Children’s Movies
      • Film Lectures
    • Albums
    • Non-fiction books
    • Books
    • Children’s Books

Favorite Series

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1980)
  • Heimat (Edgar Reitz 1984-2004)
  • The Singing Detective (Dennis Potter 1986)
  • Twin Peaks (Mark Frost & David Lynch 1990-1991: Season 1 and the first half of Season 2)
  • The Kingdom / Riget (Lars von Trier 1994-1997)
  • The Sopranos (David Chase 1999-2007)
  • Six Feet Under (Alan Ball 2001-2005)
  • 24 (Robert Cochran & Joel Surnow 2001-2006: Seasons 1-5)
  • Breaking Bad (Vince Galligan 2008-2013)
  • Homeland (Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon 2011-2017: Seasons 1-5)
  • Borgen (Adam Price 2010-2022)
  • True Detective (Nic Pizzolatto 2014 USA: Season 1)
  • The Good Place (Michael Schur 2016-2018: Seasons 1-3)
  • Twin Peaks, the Return (Mark Frost & David Lynch, 2017)
  • Big Little Lies (David E. Kelley 2017: Season 1)
  • Patrick Melrose (Edward Berger 2018)
  • Bodyguard (Jed Mercurio 2018)
  • Killing Eve (Phoebe Waller-Bridge 2018: Season 1)
  • The Looming Tower (Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney & Lawrence Wright 2018)
  • Better Call Saul (Vince Galligan & Peter Gould 2018-2022: Seasons 4-6)
  • Succession (Jesse Armstrong 2018-2023)
  • Chernobyl (Craig Mazin 2019)
  • Unbelievable (Susannah Grant 2019)
  • Russian Doll (Lesley Headland, Natasha Lyonne, & Amy Poehler 2019: Season 1)
  • Watchmen (Damon Lindelof 2019)
  • Sex Education (Laurie Nunn 2019-2023)
  • Small Axe (Steve McQueen 2020)
  • The Investigation (Tobias Lindholm 2020)
  • It’s a Sin (Russell T. Davies 2021)
  • Time (Lewis Arnold 2021)
  • Dopesick (Danny Strong 2021)
  • Severance (Dan Erickson 2022-now)
  • The Bear (Christopher Storer 2022-now)
  • De joodse raad (Paula van der Oest 2024)
  • Say Nothing (Anthony Byrne, Michael Lennox, Mary Nighy, & Alice Seabright 2024)
  • Adolescence (Stephen Graham & Jack Thorne 2025)

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