Safety First

2013
Safety First

Seasons & Episodes

  • 2
  • 1

EP1 Bobbejaanland Oct 29, 2014

Dirk proud briefed that Safety First is to guard theme park Bobbejaanlaanland 'with a team of eight', but is embarrassingly told on site to shut up by haughty local team leader Kim, who treats the subcontractor team as infantile surplus. Luc and Ingrid actually get caught while he borrow her cellphone. Smos is instantly smitten with Kim, b-neglecting his duty to chase her tail, yet after a booty call, strangely following a rude scolding, is crushed to be told such a 'mere boy' could never be more then a quickie. Attempted petty revenge on a Segway backfires for everybody.

EP2 Schoolrock Nov 05, 2014

Safety First is hired to guard the prestigious technical school Kardinaal Van Roey's annual school rock festival, starring Smos's showbiz idol, DJ & singer Reggi Pinxten. Smos also turns to this musical hero when he learns that his form idol Dirk has life-long trust issues, stemming from a failed trust building exercise in class. Smos's efforts to build confidence with Inrid's help rather underline her. Meanwhile Luc, eager to impress Ingrid, promises to get her kid into the school, which she left too long, but it doesn't fit the criteria and the principal is beyond bribery, so Luc hires a boy to pretend her son is in a wheelchair.

EP3 Bouwwerf Nov 12, 2014

EP4 Automarkt Nov 19, 2014

Safety First must guard an exclusive car sales market. Smos falls in love with a foxy blue sports-car but isn't allowed to leave his post, so he begs Ingrid to negotiate for him. Her clumsiness and Smos's open avidity to get it make the owner too greedy to accept a reasonable price, so Luc advises dirty tricks, like sabotage, which go pear-shaped. Dirk is accidentally slapped in the eye by Luc, who refuses to apologize on command, leading to a childishly escalating row. It seems to compromise the whole team spirit, until everyone pulls together to attempt rescuing Smos's dream and Ingrid herself.

EP5 Cinema Nov 26, 2014

EP6 Multinational Dec 03, 2014

Safety First is proud to guard a world executives summit hosted by the modest Belgian branch of a Korean multinational, to prepare the top-secret launch of its latest smart-phone model. Dirk's home-made badges system produces panic when one gets mixed up with Ingrid's during a booty call with Luc. Smos is on their trail, but gets taken off by Dirk, who rather invents a moll hunt and orders a lock-down.

EP7 Bowling Dec 10, 2014

Dirk offers his staff a team building event, in Pol's bowling alley. He believed Luc's boasting to get mates rates as former champion team member, but is charged full price, for which he lacks the cash. Worse, he's hiding for the team that the firms is as good as broke. Smos meanwhile feels miserable, having found out Luc and Ingrid's forbidden romantic relationship, even kissing on the job. Both secrets are bound to get out.

EP8 Ziekenhuis Dec 17, 2014

Having collapsed, over-stressed by dire firm finances requiring a dismissal, Dirk is hospitalized and seeks to prolong his stay to postpone the inevitable. The physician firmly calls security to evict the malingerer, Smos and Luc clash with the 'aggressive' agent. Insecure Ingrid meanwhile fusses about whether to have plastic surgery, only to find out she's expecting Luc's baby, which forces both truth time and a surprising temporary way out.
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Released: 30 October 2013 Ended
Producted By: Shelter
Country: Belgium
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"Safety First" is a hilarious work place mockumentary set at the heart of a security company. Discipline, dedication and friendship, that's what work is about. Oh, and falling over, making a mess, accidentally making a total fool of yourself and then picking yourself up to get back in the game.

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tim-vanlaere This series centers around Dirk Porrez who manages a "small self employed" security firm. You could describe him as the picked on kid that grew up and does everything in his effort to do good from a certain naive view on the world. While "kicking back" and following through to realize this fantasy like ideal image of success. It allows very clever writing about interactions, feeling, causality, social status, setting priorities and situational humor.His employees are a loyal following that look up to him which gives value to Dirk and a sense of responsibility to take care of his "crew". While they, often incompetently, try to reach out to Dirk for his leadership and the anchor-role he embodies.While they are all a bit clumsy in different regards, they also have strengths they excel in just the right moments. The humor of the show lies in the way each individual aces or fails a new setting and a new situation (which their "security consultancy job" brings them). The way they are non- pretentious (in success and failure) and the variety of incidents makes it easy to identify at least a few times... As the characters, even a bit stereotypical, respond situational and can "win big" or "fail very badly" makes them very humane and recognizable.As the group revolves a lot around the subject of friendship, family and sticking together and up for each other, it gives a very down to earth chuckle with very solid values. It is one of the better lighthearted Flemish productions where you kind of feel "part of the losers" and feeling good and cool about it.The movie that has followed tried to push too much on stereotypes and a moralizing story by "sending a message", making it almost backfire - but people seemed very attached to the characters by the time they went to see the movie it passed. While it came across as a bit forced, it has irreversibly opened a new dimension for Dirk Porrez. By making the story about his "gay outing" it rendered him from a neutral, pseudo-workaholic wannabe authoritative figure with a soft heart into a personality that opens narrative for a gay love story (or channel to address gay issues) while it might steer the series more into a couples and relationships based story/moral compass for season 3 compared to a work related friendship based narrative for season 1 and 2.