Les témoins (2014– )
9/10
Engrossing French Detective Series
23 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Watched all six episodes on a cold, wintry day. Excellent acting. Lots of plot twists.

One key element in European films as compared to American films is that the police are not as trigger-happy. In several episodes, the Americans would have shot first and asked questions later. Interestingly, the hesitation on the part of the police causes problems for them later.

The lead character, played by Marie Dompnier, is new to the job in the coastal community. A series of bizarre crimes all bear the same signature and pattern. A retired police officer is called in to help because the scenes have some relationship to his past cases.

Dompnier is wonderful and while she is on the screen a lot, she carries the series well.

There is a cliffhanger at the end of each episode which makes it almost impossible to stop watching. So we watched all six in row.
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