High Tides on Netflix ends where it always threatened to: inside the collapse

High Tides on Netflix ends where it always threatened to: inside the collapse

When a series about the wealthy young residents of Belgium’s most expensive coastal enclave commits its entire three-season arc to a character managing bipolar disorder, it is telling the audience something precise. Not that mental health stories belong in glossy settings — many series have demonstrated that without consequence — but that the specific social world being depicted is the thing making the mental health crisis structural. That the p…