Secrets We Keep Review
Director: Per Fly
Date Created: 2025-05-15 20:08
4.5
Secrets We Keep Review: This Danish Netflix series, also known as Reservatet, is directed by Per Fly and written by Ina Bruhn and Mads Tafdrup. It has only six episodes of around 40 minutes per episode. The series is led by Marie Bach Hansen as Cecilie, and Simon Sears plays her husband Mike. The series also stars Lars Ranthe, Danica Curcic, Excel Busano, Donna Levkovski and others.
The narrative unfolds in a tranquil, affluent suburb of Denmark. Everything seems peaceful until one day, Ruby, a young foreign au pair, goes missing. What happens next is not just a mystery, but a deep look into class, race, and hidden power dynamics.
Secrets We Keep Review
When I began watching Netflix’s Secrets We Keep, I thought I’d be watching just another crime drama. A girl goes missing, someone looks into it, and the truth comes out. But this series surprised me. It has more to do with what goes on after the girl is gone, and with how they and the people around them react when all their picture-perfect lives are disrupted.
The protagonist, Cecilie, comes to suspect that something terrible might have happened to Ruby. She attempts to investigate, but the police don’t believe her. After all, Ruby is a foreign domestic worker, someone that most people don’t give a damn about. That really resonated with me. It felt real. Sometimes, people only start caring when the problem reaches their own door.
What was most interesting for me, however, is how the series depicts social agreements. The show reveals slowly how people with money and power will often view those who work for them as “part of the family”, only in name. The truth is different. It really made me think, that message.
Netflix’s Secrets We Keep’s greatest strength is its acting. Cecilie, played by Marie Bach Hansen, provides a very nuanced performance. You can see her struggle so starkly — she wants to do the right thing, but she’s also afraid of what the truth might do to her family.
Danica Curcic, as Katarina, adds dimension to a portrait of a woman just trying to keep it together while harbouring secrets of her own. Tension is heightened by the chemistry between the women.
I also quite liked the au pairs, Angel and Ruby. While Ruby isn’t in the series for most of it, it feels heavily influenced by her. Angel’s part becomes crucial, and she helps to tell us about workers who are trying to reach Denmark, or are already working there, in order to find a better life.
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There’s much to appreciate about the Secrets We Keep series. For one, I appreciated the way the show used Ruby’s absence as an opportunity to illustrate the broader issues of immigration, racism and how society treats those who have less access to power. It didn’t feel forced. It felt honest.
The show doesn’t hold back. There were a couple of scenes that made me feel uncomfortable, but in a good way. It made me realise how convenient it is to ignore problems if they’re not happening to us.
The one part I wish had been better was in the telling of Ruby’s story. The series is more centred around Cecilie and her path. That kind of thing doesn’t leave a lot of room to explore Ruby’s actual life, though. But I see why the scriptwriters choose to follow Cecilie, because this is how people like her start to get it pressed into their forehead what the truth is.
Secrets We Keep is not a show you watch and forget. It sticks with you because it causes you to wonder. It’s not just about solving the mystery, it’s about what lies under the façade of polite, wealthy society. This Danish series Secrets We Keep, reveals how easily people can ignore what’s wrong until it becomes impossible to look away.
Summing Up
Overall, I’d have to tell you I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this show as much as I did. But it impressed me. It’s intelligent, emotional and incredibly timely in today’s world. It demonstrates that justice doesn’t come easily when the subjects are rich and powerful. It is also a reminder that sometimes doing the right thing can hurt, but that it is the right thing to do. If you’re into crime shows that have a bit of a message or social commentary, Secrets We Keep on Netflix is worth watching.
Secrets We Keep 2025 is now streaming on Netflix.
