Les bleus: premiers pas dans la police

I am living in France and we import a lot of American TV shows. American TV Shows are broadcasted till morning to night on major networks. CSI, X-File, Law and Order, Veronica Mars, sitcoms etc ... and all of these are rocking the TV audience here. We love the better and the worst when it is made in America. So, our TV fiction productions poor and most of the time low budgeted, consensual and often ridiculous. Why wasting money to create quality serials when American directors are working (good) instead us.

With "Les Bleus ..." (slang expression for "trainee policemens") we follow young policemen in Paris. The cast is good, the stories are rate and complex, the dialogs are funny and clever and the film direction is superb.

I do not know if foreign people will understand all of the trick words and the jokes but I hope people in France had fun with this.

Gaël - Paris - France

I think it's a little easy to criticize "Les Bleus"...Have you seen the rest of the french shows? I'm not sure France will ever be as good as the U.S concerning TV shows. You can't compare the two of them. So, yeah, if you watch something from HBO and "Les Bleus", you might think it's crap. But the thing is, it's the best French have ever done on TV. Its strength, I believe, remains on the writing, which reminds me both of U.S scenarios but without completely copying it and adding up some french humor and style. There are a lot of very funny references; on the whole, the cast is good especially considering how french acting is.... The problem with other french shows is that they try to copy U.S ones, but they neither have the actors for it, nor the inspiration, and above all, they try to do something that doesn't match to France. All we ever see on TV is unrealistic and seems not to have been thought over;there's no logic, no creation in it. The "les bleus" crew i think were aware of all those mistakes,just did their own special thing and worked hard on it. Plus it's obvious they have way more talent than the others!

This product "sits between two stools" in that it doesn't really decide what it wants to be. Part comedy, part policier, a lot of bad romance (anybody with everybody, "nobody left behind")

I find the characters never add up anything interesting, always fulfilling the clichés they provided on the first episode. Yes, Moreno is a cool deceiver but sympa; Laura Maurier (Elodie) is your typical heroine, feisty, beautiful, and honest; Kevin is your classical "gay best friends" of all the gals. Also honest, fun, and rather offbeat. Lyes Beloumi is funny, but too politically correct to be really anything more than typecast. Viviane Meyer is sexy but wooden as an actress (her lines suck, it's not her fault I guess, but for taking this silly role :)).

Regarding "metropeel from Paris"'s comment, it's true that some of the jokes may be lost on us foreigners, but I find that the general flow of it is not that deep that someone with only a rudimentary knowledge of French and their moeurs could twig.

Overall... watch only if you've got nothing else to do!