![]() ![]() That’s certainly not how things get done in Britain, and it makes for a lively TV scenario. Second is to do with the utterly fascinating French justice system involving the police, the lawyers and the judge working together on a criminal investigation from the get go. ![]() More rounded than either Sofie Gråbøl’s Sarah Lund in The Killing or Sofia Helin’s Saga Norén from The Bridge, she is – at least outwardly – the polar opposite of Gillian Anderson’s coolly reserved and immaculately dressed Stella in The Fall. These characteristics are Laure’s most defining quality and that’s what sets her apart from the rest, making her feminine, attractive and appealing. She’s unafraid of showing her vulnerability and her emotional and sometimes fragile state of mind. Her hair and clothes are unkempt and untidy. To begin with, Police Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) is unlike any other detective seen on TV. We’re taken into the underbelly of society and the reality of police work – the incompetence, the bureaucracy, the corruption, and of course les affaires de coeur. In fact the City of Lights is grey, untidy, sordid and menacing. It’s about time: Series Five has just ended its run.įollowing different criminal investigations (drug trafficking, corporate shenanigans, terrorism) against a contemporary Paris backdrop, we see each case develop from all points of view – the police, the lawyers, the judge. But for the last ten years BBC Four has been surreptitiously flying the flag for French TV with Spiral ( Engrenages), a police procedural drama now beginning to get properly noticed in the UK. When supernatural drama The Returned ( Les revenants) was broadcast last year, complete with playful French ads during the breaks, Channel 4 had a huge hit on its hands. Is a French invasion softly tiptoeing onto our shores? Channel 4’s huge success with spooky drama The Returned has brought new attention to a groundbreaking French police procedural series that has been quietly lurking for some time. ![]()
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