Don't tell me you missed it! Last night on BBC4! The best crime series bar none! All in French, of course, but with excellent sub-titles. But most of all, featuring two of the most attractive women on television. Not perfect beauties, you understand, indeed our heroine chief detective is a real old scruff bag but she has that je ne sait quoi, if you follow my meaning, like so many French women. The other one is a drop-dead gorgeous lawyer - and yes, I forgive her dastardly legal trickery because she is is just so ... so ... sexy!
Oh dear, I'm in danger of becoming over-excited so let me also add that the series - and this is #5 - is a superb example of complex story-telling. There are various threads running through but the writers and directors are so skilfull that you never lose track of them. They, and the actors, have the ability in a few lines of dialog to fill in the background to the plot-lines and round-out the characters involved.
Put simply, this is the very best show on television. My only criticism is that I wrote regularly to the two ladies involved using my very best 'O'-level French (which I passed, er, just!) but received no reply. Obviously my own thespian triumphs have not yet filtered through to France! Quell dommage!
(Also, I have just noticed that you can buy DVDs of previous series at Amazon.)
