The Law of Beasts Trailer Lands: Netflix’s Polish Drama Arrives November 18
Two women, two timelines and one case that refuses to close. Netflix has released the official trailer for Kasper Bajon's four-part series, with all episodes landing on November 18.
Friendship is the first casualty in The Law of Beasts, and the series makes no secret of it. Netflix has released the official trailer for the Polish drama, and the date to mark is November 18, 2026, when all four episodes arrive at once.
Kasper Bajon directs and co-wrote the script with Anna Kasińska. The leads are Agnieszka Grochowska, Agnieszka Żulewska and Michał Pawlik. Each episode runs 45 minutes, so the whole thing fits into a long evening, though the subject matter may keep you thinking well past it.
A case, a friendship, two timelines
The story opens in 1988. Anna Bersz, a major in the Citizens’ Militia, leads the investigation into Mariusz Trynkiewicz. Her friend Agnieszka Grabska, a psychiatrist, is asked to assess the suspect’s mental capacity. Both women act on their professional duties and their personal convictions. Those decisions end the friendship and shape the rest of their lives.
Then the clock jumps. Twenty-five years later, the convicted man is due to be released. Anna is now a government official, and Agnieszka is a respected expert in psychiatry. Both face the same question again: how do you protect society and stay true to the principles of the law? Going back to the case also means going back to their own choices.
Netflix describes the series as a drama about the limits of friendship and justice. It is aimed at viewers who like character-driven stories about professional and personal dilemmas, and about how institutions work. The series, in Netflix’s words, invites reflection on responsibility and leaves viewers room to form their own opinions about what the characters do.
Why two women sit at the centre
Bajon is clear about where the idea came from. While researching and writing with Kasińska, he says, “we noticed that many strong, capable women were involved in this case.” The men, he adds, talked at length about how to solve the problem, but responsibility often fell to the women. That observation put Anna and Agnieszka at the heart of the series.
Both are fictional. They are not based on specific individuals, though Bajon says that, as in all his scripts, they are composites of traits drawn from the many people the team met during research. They also stand for two ways of looking at the world. Anna believes evil can exist objectively and demands a decisive response. Agnieszka does not question people’s responsibility for their actions, but she sees the complex factors behind them. In Bajon’s summary: “Anna takes a more unequivocal view; Agnieszka sees more nuance.”
That contrast gives the series its engine. Bajon says the relationship between the two women brings the conflict between the need for safety and the principles of the law “down to a personal level.” Two people who once trusted each other now disagree about a question with no comfortable answer.
The cast and the craftspeople
Behind the three leads sits a deep Polish ensemble: Kamilla Baar, Adam Nawojczyk, Michalina Łabacz, Aleksander Talkowski, Jakub Sasak, Jan Jankowski, Andrzej Chyra, Artur Paczesny, Przemysław Kowalski, Małgorzata Gorol, Ewelina Starejki, Jacek Beler, Hanna Śleszyńska and Grzegorz Warchoł.
The credits behind the camera matter just as much for a drama that moves between two eras. Bartłomiej Kaczmarek is director of photography, and Piotr Waglewski composed the music. Anna Marzęda is production designer, Magdalena Bem-Jankowska is costume designer, and Daria Siejak handles makeup and hair. Edyta Krajewska produces, with production by Entrego. A story that spans a quarter of a century depends on exactly those departments: the rooms, the clothes and the faces that tell you what year it is before anyone says a word.
The trailer is the first full look at how it all comes together. On November 18, the rest follows, in one release and only on Netflix.
Via Netflix