Everything sounds better in French and this series has it all: interesting cast and characters, good scripts, intriguing stories, beautiful setting. And they just keep coming. It's addictive.
Cecile Bois is a very likeable lead, easy to identify with as she tries to balance returning to full-time work, and the difficulties she experiences there, with her family and private lives.
Her team was at first openly hostile towards her - her boss still is - but their characters develop and get used to her unusual methods of investigation. Candice is not sophisticated, she can talk to and connect with practically any suspect. She unashamedly uses her woman's intuition a lot of the time to crack a case. Her deputy, Antoine, does a complete about face and later, is most convincing as cop with PTSD in denial. The characters face real conundrums and have to make difficult choices in their lives and we're with them all the way. Being gay is handled with genuine understanding and frankness.
There's also plenty of humour and even an episode when the French do a Life on Mars and head back to 1975.
I could have done without the crude, hackneyed feminist anthem 'Respect' being the title music, but otherwise, I love it.
The secret ingredient is that Candice Renoir, both the character and the series, has heart.
Cecile Bois is a very likeable lead, easy to identify with as she tries to balance returning to full-time work, and the difficulties she experiences there, with her family and private lives.
Her team was at first openly hostile towards her - her boss still is - but their characters develop and get used to her unusual methods of investigation. Candice is not sophisticated, she can talk to and connect with practically any suspect. She unashamedly uses her woman's intuition a lot of the time to crack a case. Her deputy, Antoine, does a complete about face and later, is most convincing as cop with PTSD in denial. The characters face real conundrums and have to make difficult choices in their lives and we're with them all the way. Being gay is handled with genuine understanding and frankness.
There's also plenty of humour and even an episode when the French do a Life on Mars and head back to 1975.
I could have done without the crude, hackneyed feminist anthem 'Respect' being the title music, but otherwise, I love it.
The secret ingredient is that Candice Renoir, both the character and the series, has heart.