Die Bestie von Bayonne

Really good series, nice and unexpected end! I think the story line with Sarah and her dad is really good.

There are many improbable plot twists in French police thriller 'The Promise', but that's just par for the course. Even before things get silly, however, the basic conceit lost me, due to its essential laziness: a policewoman starts digging into crimes her father, also a cop, had previously investigated; and because she cares, she is also right (or at least, more right than anyone else) about everything and thus justified in doing absolutely nothing by the book. There's a good reason we expect our real detectives to be dispassionate, but the opposite state of affairs is so common in television series it's not only inaccurate, but cliched. For me, 'The Promise' never rises about its hackneyed premise.

Had me hooked until the final episode then everything collapsed. What a huge letdown. Could have been a classic but oh dear. So much promise until the finale. Could have been so much better.

I did enjoy this series over all, it was engaging with good characters and was at times tense. I do agree with others that the ending was somewhat disappointing. But it was well acted and directed throughout and I will watch the next series.

Sofia Essaïdi and Elisa Ezzedine were both good as Sarah Castaing. Leslie Medina as Lilas Castaing was full of character and a little underused in the story. Olivier Marchal as Pierre Castaing was good until the last episode as others have said, but that was the writing, not his acting.

This really can't be compared to Spiral which apparently is from same production team and the reason I watched.

A female police detective who's bad at her job surely isn't the ideal protagonist for this flawed series.

It just about gets to episode five with some credibility before bringing on a series of risible belly laughs - which is obviously not the audience response the producers are hoping for.

Maybe just one day there will be a detective who has a supportive partner, that would be radical. And that is just one of the many cliches that abound in the poor script.