The review about forgetting all your previous concepts of TV police is on the mark. Even Bluebloods, which I love and which reminds you that the police are people too, has slips now and then. But Engrenages has you right next to all the people involved, trying to make sense out of what you see, wondering if involvement leads to danger, questioning whether what they're saying is true or an attempt to divert or entrap. I am not a viewer in a chair watching them. I'm there with them, almost through the whole episode. There has never been any other show where I was drawn in so completely. I look in amazement, going back to the days when there was only the radio and movies for me to watch, wondering how, with so many brilliant writers, directors and actors, nothing like this was ever done before. A remarkable tribute to French creativity.
Review of Spiral
