Sakho & Mangane

This started so promisingly. The first five episodes recounted well-constructed police investigations in an exotic setting. There was added interest in the way superstition (and no more) played a role in the cases. Then it all went pear shaped. Zombies, people with supernatural powers, unbelievable plot twists all with no coherent structure. I watched till the end but was really disappointed.

I'm afraid that another big failure was that some of the actors had clearly spoken their lines in Wolof and then been overdubbed into French and others were saying their lines in the latter language with no dubbing. This is simply not acceptable to a UK audience, even though dubbing is normal in France. The series would have been better completely in Wolof and some French dialogue (as when the French pathologist speaks) with subtitles, either French or English. Oddly, there were small bursts of speech left in Wolof which were not translated or subtitled. This might have been a problem if some of the actors were not fluent in Wolof, of course.

This wasn't a complete waste of time but it could have been far better.

This series is a fresh, new and entertaining script. Some parts are funny, some serious, some magical. It combines perfectly the sights of Dakar in Senegal, the culture of this African nation, the detectivesque plot, the romance of young people. I really liked this series. I have seen so many American or British police/detectives series that this is a fresh approach, from a culture so distant to me that really entertains. Kudos to all the production team!

Exotic, cool. So annoying he got it the way of the story.

No thank you.

Everything is scattered, also annoying. Choppy direction, camera work.

Exhausting, but not entertaining.

Photography not beautiful enough to make it worth it.

Pass.

The creator of the movie Mass Seck a Senegalese director showed samples of the episodes to canal which in turn changed the names of the actors to make it their movies. Seck filed to sue canal for Plagiarism. All the evidences showed canal STOLE HIS WORK! It the grabbing culture of westerners even with intellectual properties. First it was Phillip Niang the creator according to Canal and then they said Jean Luc Herbulot created the series! The latter confirmed he didn't create the serie. They took his DIVISION X and turned it into Sakho and Mangane. Canal est entrain d'arracher les idees de jeunes africains pour en faire sa propre production. And the group canal pays the people in the justice system in senegal for example, to STEAL PROPERTIES OF AFRICANS.

I wish there were many more seasons... The basic idea of the series is great in its own anyway but the kind of cheesy n sloppy parts (or the lack of details in some aspects) makes it all the more pleasureable. I'm bored with super-sophisticated / super-serious series. This is true TV fun. My thanks to the crew!