19-2

If you appreciate great writing, excellent acting and impeccable direction this is the series for you.

19-2 lures you in, grabs ahold of you and doesn't let you go until the end. You become engrossed in the day to day lives of these officers and their families and their stories.

And the acting is some of the best I've seen anywhere, truly superb!

While you travel with these officers on patrol, encountering some of the saddest, silliest, darkest, and scariest situations imaginable, you can't help but see and feel exactly what they are experiencing as they try to keep some semblance of order in such a messed up world. Their camaraderie as a team and as a family feels exquisitely real, and you can't help but feel it as well.

The storyline threading through all episodes of all 3 seasons is gripping and heartrending as it pulls and tears at the characters in life altering ways.

Just watch it - you'll see what I mean.

All the performances here are topnotch but the real stars are director Daniel Grou's facile direction and cinematographer Claudine Sauvé's imaginative camera work. So many shows on Netflix have terrible cinematography, where camera operators lack the talent to keep subjects in the frame. Not so with Grou and Sauvé, who give this series a sense of you-are-there excitement. It's a thrilling ride, helped by solid storylines and sharp, incisive scripts. There's an underlying intelligence that permeates every scene. Some of the tracking shots are breathtaking.

It's not all perfect. The green-hued palette is overdone and gives everything a uniform sickly appearance. Also, one could argue the soap opera elements at times overwhelm the impetus of the plot but that would be griping because, unlike so many Hollywood shows, the romantic moments are usually intertwined with the plot.

This series is up there with THE WIRE and ENGRENAGES (the Spiral), yet it is nothing like them, it is unique.

It feels very fly on the wall, and it shows the good, bad and ugly.

I really like cop shows that really character study the people, including childhood, homelife and shows motivations.

This show is very much about cops and the job itself, loyalty, and trying to be competent under pressure. It is not much about criminals and does not glorify crime, corruption or excessive force in any way.

One of my favorite aspects of this show is that all of the cops are very believable and unique characters with their own way.

There is nothing like this show--it is excellent, warts and all.

Definitely one of the most gut-wrenching cop series out there. Every character is flawed, yet likable. The situations are almost always tense and the stress of being a police officer is very well expressed.

There was a one-year hiatus between season one and season two, due to a change in producers, but the quality of the series has not faltered one bit. The second season first episode (no spoilers here) will go down in history as being one the most frightening and shocking out there.

You can't help but like and relate to the lead characters, Benoît Chartier, played by Claude Legault, and Nick Beroff, played by Réal Bossé. Those of us familiar with Bossé have never seen him in such a dramatic role. One wonders where he channels all that angst from.

If you are fluent in French and looking for something that would be world famous if HBO produced it, look no further, 19-2 is it.

This is an extraordinary series,to say the least...it never stalls,stumbles,or runs dry....far from running out of material,it is as if the writers had to deal with having TOO MUCH material to fit in each episode....no sooner was one story told than it led to the next story with barely enough time for so much as a beat....all of the characters are complete,multi-dimensional human beings-capable of misunderstanding-and being misunderstood-and vice-versa......I could go on and on about :The Entire Cast,The Writing; The Imagery; The Direction,The Editing,The Cinematography,The Wardrobe-Makeup-Special Effects,The Music,etc.,etc.,etc.... I will just say that,in my opinion,this work is the sum of one million little things done with perfection-a masterpiece.....I cannot speak French,and I say to others who do not speak French: these actors are fluent in Body Language,and they convey the meaning of the scenes by speaking this Universal Language. Their words ( in my case,the English Subtitles) are merely icing on the cake; and simply add meaning to a meaning already conveyed.....I have tried to express my feelings about this series,but I implore anyone who reads this to view this series; and let this Work of Art speak for itself.