Knokke Off

Knokke Off (High Tides) is a Belgian fictional television series created by Anthony Van Biervliet which first aired in 2023.

[4] A young couple in their early twenties, Louise Basteyns (Pommelien Thijs) and Alexandre "Alex" Vandael (Willem De Schryver), experience a carefree summer with their friends in the chic town of Knokke on the Belgian coast.

Into this tumultuous world enters Daan (Eliyha Altena) and his mother Melissa (Anna Drijver) from the Dutch city of Breda.

Stefan Werbrouck of the Flemish magazine HUMO wrote that Knokke Off was "more exciting, more daring, and simply better than all other fictional works of VRT that spring".

He continued saying that despite the overarching theme that those with money and status are invariably among the winners, the screenwriters did not make cheap attacks on the rich because life would also "hold shitty moments for those ready, who hang a cashmere sweater around their shoulders.

[12] Ruben Praster of the Dutch entertainment magazine Veronica Superguide found Knokke Off to be "easy to swallow", but that it takes a while to get going.

[14] Omar Larabi of the Dutch public television association BNNVARA regretted that the scriptwriters would often resort to clichés and never really make life at the bottom of the social ladder tangible.

[1] When Knokke Off was broadcast on television, the first two episodes were watched by half a million viewers live and an additional 400,000 people time-shifted.

[2] Outside of Belgium and the Netherlands, Knokke Off or High Tides was in the global Top 5 of the most streamed Netflix shows in a language other than English in December 2023.

The show was largely filmed in the title town of Knokke .