Spiral (and other French police series)

[tim2017]

Spiral Series 8 being filmed. May be spoilers.

https://thekillingtimestv.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/series-eight-of-spiral-begins-filming-adds-cast-member/

[vinteuil]

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... sad to report - towards the end of the last episode mme v and I looked at one another in agreement - isn't this a bit boring? There is now a certain predictability - they will bungle their operations, Laure will look miserable, Josephine will get more mad while remaining gorgeous... we still love Roban.

The Radio Times says next week's couple of episodes are stonkingly good. They'd better be...

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[Dave2002]

I still miss Tintin...

I thought he’d been blown up, but didn’t he reappear as a visitor in last week’s episode?

[DracoM]

Agreed. It did seem like mix as before.
Addition is the child crisis? Is Laure frightened of bringing the child up full stop?

[vinteuil]

I thought he’d been blown up, but didn’t he reappear as a visitor in last week’s episode?

... he did, at the bar following Herville's funeral.

All nicely awkward.

I suspect we shall find that their beloved Herville had been up to his armpits in all sorts of corruption....


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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought he’d been blown up, but didn’t he reappear as a visitor in last week’s episode?

No - that was Laure's boyfriend/colleague (?Sami?) a couple or three series ago. By the end of last series, Tintin was doing a lot of sulking because Laure and Gilou were playing on their own and not letting him "in".

Enjoying this series - but I'm getting more of a sense of what goes on at the scriptwriters' meetings ("What can we do with/to them this time?"). Even so, that moment when the mortician opened the wrong drawer and Laure saw Herville's corpse was a masterpiece of understated horror from Ms Proust).

[vinteuil]

No - that was Laure's boyfriend/colleague (?Sami?) a couple or three series ago. .

... Samy Bouchara, first seen in series two, promoted to captain in series four where he is killed in an explosion.


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[Dave2002]

... Samy Bouchara, first seen in series two, promoted to captain in series four where he is killed in an explosion.

Agree about Samy. Tintin did come back briefly, and a bit “out” of it last week.

[vinteuil]

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... really desperately disappointed over the last few weeks. This has become really clunky, the plot signalled in advance, no lightness of touch, no character development, the actors walking thro' their parts. We are looking at the clock, so bored by it all. Dismal.

And particularly in contrast with our new delight -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giri/Haji

... which shows how things can be done - televisually literate, witty, deft, a joy.

Do we have a thread on Giri/Haji ? Or is no one else following?

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[Braunschlag]

I’ll own up to bingeing all of Giri/Haji in two days, very stylish and interesting indeed, thumbs up from me!
I’m persevering with World on Fire simply to see how much more it can convolute itself into a caricatured two-dimensional load of codswallop. Each time I watch I think ‘well, it can’t possibly get worse’ and it does. Risible rubbish, a victim of the new diversity police.

[kernelbogey]

I thought Spiral 7 at last lived up to previous series in the last two episodes on Saturday. Looking forward to the final four episodes. The plotting has turned out to be quite clever. Is Roban about to reach his nemesis?

[eighthobstruction]

I’m persevering with World on Fire simply to see how much more it can convolute itself into a caricatured two-dimensional load of codswallop. Each time I watch I think ‘well, it can’t possibly get worse’ and it does. Risible rubbish, a victim of the new diversity police.

....yes, coming only a second behind Dublin Murders....I blame Poliakoff [for many many things]....Lack of dirt and wear on costumes my recent pet hate....Who did Harry bring back this week - his daemon....

[Stunsworth]

I thought Spiral 7 at last lived up to previous series in the last two episodes on Saturday. Looking forward to the final four episodes. The plotting has turned out to be quite clever. Is Roban about to reach his nemesis?

After finally getting up to date with the series I have to say I've enjoyed it a lot, Mme Karlsson's 'journey' in particular.

Apparently series 8 has just finished filming. I'm hoping everyone's favourite judge will still be in it - there was a conversation in one of the earlier programmes that a judge could only continue after the retirement date in 'exceptional circumstances', I trust there will be such circumstances.

[vinteuil]

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... since my gloomy #204 above things have perked up quite a bit - the last few episodes (8, 9, 10 I think) quite back to form. There are bits of the money-laundering saga that are tedious in the extreme - but good to see Tintin back, and in a juicy position; and the travails of St Roban still have us completely gripped...

Audrey Fleurot's need to keep her mouth open all the time continues to be a source of distress here.


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[Nick Armstrong]

Four episodes in here, and just happy to be inhabiting their world again - hadn’t detected any serious drop-off of form. Roban continues to be the lynch-pin, every scene with him fascinating.

(Was interesting this summer to see a much younger Philippe Duclos playing a suspect in one of the TF1 Maigret episodes, just as magnetic )