kristinobi I love Sprial. Typically, I watch Nordic Noir genre but I am digging the French line up!

mybeloved-bb I've never written a review have no idea how to except I have to say something here... I've watched so many series over the years.... Spiral... is my favorite ever... it's the whole package done in excellence...Crime... Detectives... the Judicail system ... the character development.... these relationships ... are very real to life in that they are not glamorized... they're raw... the acting of the main cast... I feel like I know them in a way if they don't have season 7 I'll go into such a disappointment I'll never get over it!! Really give Spiral a chance to unfold before you, you'll be hooked soon!!

mr_lucaspaul It seems that these TV series have been made in parts by old fashioned right wing paranoid policemen.I had already noticed that in season 4 the group of investigator was fighting an ultra left group which was ready to bomb and target the police. The season was made in 2012 so quite a long time after May 68 or the red brigades and at the time the bombs throwers had not been the ultra left for a long time, which made this season quite unrealistic and far from the real French political reality of the time, the left and ultra left were almost non existent.Season 6 is altogether in the same vein, the street crimes are committed by black people, gypsies and east countries criminals.It looks like these series are trying to generate fear among the French population, suburbs full of young wild black kids ready to insult you and attack you just if you cross their path, gypsies organizing the prostitution of 14 years old girls, East countries criminals who are so inhuman that they understand "shaking somebody" as meaning "kill them and mutilate their bodies".Which would lead people to think : get them out of the country; a discourse heard too often nowadays.By pointing the finger at ethnic minorities or emigrants or emigrant descendants it just reinforce the prejudice against these people and even if there is crime among them this is exaggerated and dangerous It seems to have a politically biased agenda, for instance when they interrogate some girls - visibly from a mixed race background – these girls are portrayed as arrogant, stupid and only obsessed by becoming models or to be in reality TV shows and ironically enough the college name is College Karl Marx, as if they wanted to show that any social conscience was a lost of time.Even if you are taken by the fast pace of the story the main plot is quite stupid, why would this eastern killer cut the body of the policeman into pieces? To make it disappear? Well he leaves tons of blood in the flat and leaves the head of the corpse in the bathtub; this is ridiculous it would have been so much discreet and easier to kill him quickly with a knife or a bullet.

nickwilliams4 Just finished season 4 of this cracking French Policier series. OK, it's not all totally realistic and you can pick holes in it if you want like everything else on TV (sometimes it's better to suspend disbelief a bit, even Breaking Bad was a bit silly in places and that is wonderful too). I often wonder why people watch shows like this if they expect exact realism and everything to be politically correct (check out a couple of reviews on here from people with strange expectations of a TV drama), this is a cop show and meant to entertain not a documentary to learn from that exactly mirrors the real world. Loved it, love Braquo too (check that out if you get a chance). Magnifique!