L'accident

Forensics departments who miss the most basic of clues, a mafia man rampaging through the town seemingly unseeable by and invisible to the cops, characters keeping secrets for no reason when their revelation would have immediately solved the cases of their loved ones' deaths. The list goes on. It's a mishmash of clichéed plot devices that don't really hold water and that simply give an excuse to add another episode.

I admit it, I watched till the end. But we're locked down and there's only so much reading and surfing to be done. I wouldn't have stuck it out otherwise.

If you liked Broadchurch or Hinterland you will appreciate L'Accident. Brittany is not England but the characters and the plot portray well the despair of the French provincial middle class. The characters are real, you can spend sometime in Brest, Quimper or Rennes and you will this mix of people struggling to get by and enjoy their life.

This French series has the usual marks of French TV series. There is little in the way of character development, and the dialog just make little sense to an English speaker. The plot is so confusing in the first few episodes, and the connection between the characters does not become apparent until the last 2 episodes. The acting is really terrible with the usual histrionic behavior and constant shouting that is believed to pass for good acting. It's not a good series.....really!

Entertaining enough for binging. A few weak parts in the plot development but the characters carry the story over them. The small French beach town location allows for a limited cast that is believable. Subtitle translations don't interfere and the occasional inaccurate translations are minor. Well wort watching.

The only positive I can take away from this is the basic plot line of organized black market fake (China made) knockoffs of big name designer shoes, clothes, handbags (real thing can cost $20,000+), medicines. The major negatives were poorly researched how this crime works from production, to transportation, to syndicates, to local distribution. Poorly displayed police forensics (Large syringe into the victim's neck not seen?), and police investigation. Lots of stupid, if not unrealistic scenarios. Acting - poor, at best. Denouement was the typical least expected are guilty, and to top it off the final scenes were almost laughably cockeyed unconvincing (won't hold water) dumb.