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I just finished watching the most recent Belgian "De Mol" for the second time, and my god what a great season. Perhaps my favorite season of any Mole anywhere. Looking on Wikipedia, I see that Poland ("Agent") and Finland ("Myyra") also have currently airing Mole seasons. Anybody have any idea whether someone might surreptitiously be making English subtitles for either of those? Also, the Belgian recapper is expressing strong doubts about subtitling next year, and the Dutch recapper seems to be getting more and more burned out. Any chance someone knows someone who could do this if necessary? I for one would be more than happy to help pay for the translation.

This Belgian season is really great. The boat challenge in episode 4 may be my favorite challenge from any season of any Mole.

At least we had a Mol who actually DID things this year, unlike, say, Thomas.

So I'm about 75% on Merel, 25% on Sarah, and it better not be either Sinan or Niels. Niels has put too much in the pot and did that shady thing with the joker that should be outside of what moles are allowed to do; Sinan has barely participated, which would make him the lamest mole of all time. Sarah has moled a lot, sometimes fairly obviously (I don't buy the dyslexia thing for a second); if it is her, I'm going to be a bit disappointed that the mole wasn't more subtle. Merel has been on my list since the beginning, and the last episode clinched it for me. Production obviously needed two kandidaten to leave in either episode 7 or 8, and the easiest way of doing that is to have the mole pull the two-red card, since there was no guarantee that a candidate would pull it.

I think it's a combination of boring challenges and bad casting. There have been a number of challenges where I was sure there would be some sort of twist, and then there just ... wasn't (the first box-pulling challenge, for example). And seasons where almost everyone is deliberately moling are less fun to watch, in my opinion, though I understand that's optimal strategy.

This has to be the most boring season of WITM in many years.

I'm working on the "it's time for a female Mol again" theory. Since I don't think there's any way it's Nikkie, that leaves Sarah, Merel, and Evelien.

Minority opinion, I guess, but I honestly thought Aquaria was the worst of the night. That evil outfit was disjointed as hell and needed to be simplified to make any sense. And her "read" of good Aquaria was so weak! It was just random potshots rather than really getting in deep, the way they insisted everyone else do.

Have just watched the reveal. Anyway, I thought that was a very good season, just as WIDM was this year. Looking forward to seeing more details about the sabotages next week!

Really liking this season. Between this and the recent season of WIDM, it's been a good Mole year. Re the phone call in episode 7: could anyone tell me what the specific notes were that were whistled? Am wondering if they spell a word (probably in Flemish or something) that's a clue to the actual Mole. It's hard to believe that "the sound of the Mole's whistle" was supposed to be the big giveaway hint that Gilles was suggesting was there.

Just watched episode 5 of season 6 of De Mol, and my absolute last suspect got eliminated. As usual, no help at all. At this point, I think my suspect list, from top to bottom, is Pieter - Pascale - Lloyd - Joke - Baha. I really only suspect the first three. Lloyd was my #1 until this episode, but I can't figure out why the Mole would have taken $1000 from charity to get unnecessary jokers, unless Belgian moles are just real assholes. Even if I'm wrong about Pieter, I want it to be him. I'd love a drinking, swearing priest to be the Mole.

Looks like Natalia's YouTube account has been suspended. Can't find anything on Daily Motion. I'm starting to panic -- I'm really enjoying this season and don't want to give up on it! Does anyone have any leads on where we could still get subtitled episodes?

I believe Natalia is still planning to post links on YouTube to DailyMotion and/or a place where you can watch it directly.

I still think Ellie Lust would have been a great, semi-menacing host in the Anderson Cooper vein, but I'll be okay with Rik.

Art is leaving WIDM! He's changing networks, so they're looking for a new host. :-(