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Good surprise from a French team that is otherwise a bit boring. Murder Club had earned its leading lady, Tiphaine Daviot, the best actress award at the Séries Mania festival in March. The award is deserved for this actress with a versatile face and communicative energy, increasingly present on television – we saw her recently in the series The hikersin TF1. Murder Club It is based as much on its actress as on its plot, ultimately quite well defined, as well as on its gently mocking tone, which mocks the contemporary fascination with the news.
Fed with the “Bring the accused” from a tenderly intrusive mother, Amélia Delcourt (Tiphaine Daviot) only dreams of important investigations, but she was removed from Crime after a big mistake that allowed “Shakespeare”, the signature of a serial killer that terrorizes the region, to escape. The young woman, reinstated in the team, and her companions set out on the trail of a missing teenager, a case for which she seeks the support of a renowned but tired and addicted criminologist.
Dose of self-hatred
A great specialist in “Shakespeare”, Daniel (Eric Cantona) will help Amélia and his team establish the link between him and a major murderer, whose memory fascinates the entire local community of amateur detectives and collectors of “murderabilia”, those artifacts that They were used to commit crimes or belonged to major psychopaths, sold at auction by an auctioneer played with panache and a certain sense of kitsch by Arielle Dombasle.
All this does not change much compared to the usual thrillers on the big channels. Murder Club will have difficulty finding a place among them, if it were not for the writing, a little more relaxed than average, and the desire to add a dose of self-mockery to the codes of the genre. The series thus advances the balance between comedy and thriller, without really choosing. We feel the desire not to do too much, and the effort not to parody or caricature the characters of Amélia and Daniel too much. This allows the series to avoid most of the pitfalls of the prime-time thriller (archetypal characters and plotting on autopilot), but confines it to familiar territory.
In four episodes too short to get bored, Murder Club However, it retains the idea of a second season, and we hope for a sequel that is a little more free and written, based more on its actors and their secondary plots. A season that would push the cursors and allow, perhaps, Amélia Delcourt to compete with Morgane Alvaro and HPI.
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