(The review contains mild spoilers , general mentions)
The story is about the disappearances of some girls in a small French town.
The camera work, scenery, music and cast is all good. What is lacking here is the writing of some characters and the plot, which starts quite nicely, builds up a nice mystery but as time goes by, it becomes more and more silly. The female protagonist is the worst police officer ever , always sentimental, irrational and making idiotic decisions one after the other. In real life she would be off the case (if not fired entirely) by the end of second episode and I'm being lenient. That seriously affects the plot and takes away seriousness and drama, at times it becomes laughable and annoying.
Then we have the French teacher. She is all over the place, seeing specific things here and there in the forest , that are not actually there but are also never explained. It is also strange that every single piece of evidence the police has, she is the one who delivers it. In many scenes we waych the same thing again and again, we have her showing up in her motorcycle out of nowhere, takes off the helmet , says she must help, some police officer casually allows her to do so, because "reasons" , and then she runs off somewhere on the woods and comes back with a new finding. It is like the writers had no other idea of how to make the story move forward.....and there were ways.
There were many irrational and repetitive things like these.
One more thing that made the series seem of lesser quality was almost the entirety of last episode, which pretty much is the tombstone of the series. We are approaching the end of the mystery and the revelation of the "bad guy-s . Irrationally has completely taken over, with people of the law acting like they have not the slightest idea of what they are doing, to the point it is almost painful to watch. Then , we have the introduction of our villain. In most cases it is either someone we suspected or someone who seemed completely innocent to us, the audience, as well as to other characters within the story. In this case it is someone barely seen in previous episodes and that reduces the dramatic effect greatly.
All in all , it is somewhat nice to watch as something to pass the time , but have no greater expectations than that.
The story is about the disappearances of some girls in a small French town.
The camera work, scenery, music and cast is all good. What is lacking here is the writing of some characters and the plot, which starts quite nicely, builds up a nice mystery but as time goes by, it becomes more and more silly. The female protagonist is the worst police officer ever , always sentimental, irrational and making idiotic decisions one after the other. In real life she would be off the case (if not fired entirely) by the end of second episode and I'm being lenient. That seriously affects the plot and takes away seriousness and drama, at times it becomes laughable and annoying.
Then we have the French teacher. She is all over the place, seeing specific things here and there in the forest , that are not actually there but are also never explained. It is also strange that every single piece of evidence the police has, she is the one who delivers it. In many scenes we waych the same thing again and again, we have her showing up in her motorcycle out of nowhere, takes off the helmet , says she must help, some police officer casually allows her to do so, because "reasons" , and then she runs off somewhere on the woods and comes back with a new finding. It is like the writers had no other idea of how to make the story move forward.....and there were ways.
There were many irrational and repetitive things like these.
One more thing that made the series seem of lesser quality was almost the entirety of last episode, which pretty much is the tombstone of the series. We are approaching the end of the mystery and the revelation of the "bad guy-s . Irrationally has completely taken over, with people of the law acting like they have not the slightest idea of what they are doing, to the point it is almost painful to watch. Then , we have the introduction of our villain. In most cases it is either someone we suspected or someone who seemed completely innocent to us, the audience, as well as to other characters within the story. In this case it is someone barely seen in previous episodes and that reduces the dramatic effect greatly.
All in all , it is somewhat nice to watch as something to pass the time , but have no greater expectations than that.