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A scene from French TV series “The Traveller” (“Le Voyageur”) Season 2. Courtesy of MHz Choice

It’s been over two years since I praised Season One of this fine and unique French procedural “The Traveller” (“Le Voyageur”), The protagonists were sequential disenchanted cops who went rogue – and native – to solve their choice of cold cases, often finding previously undetected links among multiple murders or abductions. Here’s the link to my coverage of Season One to prep for Season 2: https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2023/03/the-traveller-review

Season Two consists of eight more 90-minute episodes along the same lines, but even better written than before. I thought the improvement must have been due to added writers, but Herve Korian is the only credited author for the whole series! Kudos to Herve for upping his game from what was already very good.

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After a surprise opening set from Philly’s own Kurt Vile, Beach House’s Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally did an intimate gig full of songs for the real heads. They performed “Many Nights” and “The Bells” — both from 2022’s Once Twice Melody: Chapter 3 — live for the very first time, and debuted “Devil’s Pool” from last April’s Become EP.

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In The Traveller (Le Voyageur), Eric Cantona plays the detective Thomas Bareski. Disgusted by the way difficult cases are being shelved, Bareski takes a leave of absence to travel around rural France attempting to solve cold cases. Working out of the back of a battered blue van, isolated and living off the land, Bareski is the embodiment of the lone detective.

The Traveller is comprised of eight[1] feature length episodes. In the first four, Bareski arrives in a small town to further the investigation of a cold case that was beyond the capabilities of the local police. The police are obviously none too pleased with their historic failures being pointed out by some hobo cop.

The Traveller harks back to the television drama of the Eighties and Nineties. The period after the step change in production values epitomised by Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People but before CSI's reliance on.