Les invisibles

I had high hopes for this as it seemed to be a new and exciting premiss to base a series on. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.

The first disappointment? The four leads. It sounds exciting and different but it quickly became wearying and clichéd. It was clear that the characters' personalities were not integrally part of them, but devices to drive the plot along. This resulted in an absurd situation in episode two when the least senior officer took it upon herself to investigate a lead alone to refute an accusation of being useless from a far more senior team member. The other officers realised she had put herself in danger's way and tried to contact her. Guess what? They couldn't get through on her mobile, lol. How many times have we seen that grizzled old plot device?

The other main disappointment was the format. The series goes the "Colombo" route, in other words, as in the venerable old American series, we get to see the whole lot, the victim, the murderer, crime and motivation, near the beginning and are then meant to marvel at the cleverness of the detectives in uncovering clues to arrive at what we already know. I didn't like that format then and it was even less effective now.

And about those clues, well it's as if the miscreants have left them strewn around for the cops to find. Careful criminals leave huge signals as to who they are so the police get their man in the end.

I watched two episodes and have now given up. There are so many better shows to see. I'll be deleting the whole series. I really can't recommend this at all, even if there is nothing else to watch during a lockdown.