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Blind Sherlock(2026)

Archived · Netflix

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DramaMysteryCrime
ON AIR: JAN 23Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Blind Sherlock builds its crime procedural around sound rather than sight, following Roman Mertens as he uses exceptional hearing to do investigative work inside a police wiretapping unit. The deduction here runs on what a voice betrays, what a background noise places, what a pause means; the puzzle-solving has a specific texture that most crime shows never attempt.

The danger Roman faces does not arrive through chases or confrontations but accumulates inside the institution he worked to join. Professional ambition and physical vulnerability press against each other in a setting that should feel safe and increasingly does not, which gives the peril a slow, interior quality that tightens episode by episode.

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Commitment

Season 1

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Blessed with exceptional hearing, blind Roman Mertens lands his dream job in the local police wiretapping unit — a job more dangerous than he expected.

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