Capitaine Marleau

Such a wonderful mystery series with great comedy interwoven. Capitaine Marleau is portrayed as a combo between Columbo and a French truck driver. A natural talent. The series moves among many charming villages in France from Alsace to the Perigord region -- never Paris or big cities. Subtitles are generally accurate.

This is a wonderfully hilarious, fast paced and fun mystery series. Captain Marleau will make you laugh out loud whilst she is tirelessly solving murder mysteries. Her confidence in her crime solving skills, social prowess, and highly charged bursts of femininity will keep you engaged and rooting for her to win the day, and she always does. It is a great way to spend an hour unravelling clues and enjoying regular plot twists alongside the amazing Captain Marleau!

A series of a character , more than series of stories. A pure eccentric captain, surprising, amusing, efficient, sarcastic, ironic, hard worker, using cultural references in seductive and efficient manner. That makes Capitaine Marleau the series of Corinne Maiero and , in the first seasons, it is a precious virtue. In the last ones, the smell of mannerism becomes not real great. But, sure, a smart series, wise broken of cliches and a character fascinating in profound senses.

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 am not familiar with Corinne Masiero but she has created a character for the ages. I cannot think of Hercule Poirot without David Suchet and now Corinne Masiero has brought another character to life: Captain Marleau.

Marleau is a brilliant captain in the French Police but is as idiosyncratic as can be. She looks like a homeless person and the beat up winter hunting cap she is never without adds to the characterization. We frequently find her lopping alone in a sort of duck run as she jogs before receiving a call that a body has been discovered and it appears to be murder.

She is frequently added by one of her two assistants who she keeps confused by her quirky but honest demeanor. When dealing with suspects she is completely non PC. They tend to underestimate her which keeps them feeling cocky. We know that she will solve the mystery and bring the perpetrator to justice.

Marleau has odd connection with a few other colleagues, usually pathologists who are as individual as she is. The series is fun to watch and Marleau has enough allusions to American TV to make you chuckle as she will tell a suspect she is no Columbo. There are allusions to matters French but these wont distract an American viewer. You may have to read the subtitles but they are clear and easy to read.

Currently this is running on Mhz, so you will a subscription.