Capitaine Marleau

Capitaine Marleau is simply hilarious. She is a mile a minute and if you are not French you often miss all the subtleties of what she says. The writers are amazing and show they know French culture and history very well. Who else would connect the concept of « humanity » described by the priest in one of the episodes with Jean Jaurès French politician who created the newspaper L'Humanité? That allows her to connects things very fast, it fit her character to a T. I really love seeing the main character not looking like Marilyn Monroe! How refreshing and unique.

I cannot wait to see season 3 and 4 (hopefully coming soon). I was hooked on it from the moment we meet her. She's absolutely endearing and quick as lightening. We need more shows starring women like Marleau!!

A simply delightful show. Capitaine Marleau posseses the assured exuberance of a grown-up Pippi Longstocking, deliberately and frivolously rubbing people up the wrong way at first, only to win them over later and catch the criminal.

The show is up there with the Poirot's, Ms. Marple, Fr. Brown, Rosemary & Thyme, Shakespeare & Hathaway. An excellent evening's entertainment.

The subtitles are excellent and the spoken French is easy to follow. Great for learning the language and learning new phrases.

We watch on Samsung TV Plus - MHz Now channel.

It's clever & funny, with in-depth storylines, good characters, great acting (some famous actors), each episode is different and always has a psychological twist. The main character is brilliant, if you like Columbo, you'll love this show. I watch a lot of international series and this one I go back to all the time, I keep the MHZ channel because of it! It's not so dark & gory that you're questioning what you're letting in your life, yet edgey enough to be interesting and leaves you with good thoughts as there's always some compassionate quality. I can't wait for season 4!! And many more!

We await each years new season of La Capitaine , huddled round our tv in snowy Canada ,wearing our trapper hats just like her .

Whatever the superlative to iconoclastic is ...that's Captain Marleau. Her shambolic appearance and obvious lack of concern about it lulls her suspects into underestimating her , a la Peter Faulk in Colombo .. alas his trench coat did not convert to a sleeping bag!

As all tv detectives have a right to a distinctive vehicle , hers is a sometimes reluctant Land ranger. Marleau is a Land ranger herself , a roving one woman show picking up new sidekicks in each episode, with a few " experts/buddies" that she calls on. The shows must have a tourism board sponsorship , stunning scenery and locations across France.

I buy each years DVD and we watch them over Christmas ..sadly covid seems to have slowed production and we may be watching re runs .