The Mountain Detective

What an excellent series!! Storylines are intense and not always predictable! Characters are enjoyable. The scenery is incredible. Hope to have access to the next season. Will it be available on PBS Masterpiece streaming app?

Hokey from the start, shot with a .308 cal rifle and it didn't penetrate to his heart then later the cop pulls the 2nd .308 slug out of the bench with tweezers or tiny pliers. The bullet would blow baseball size holes in man and wood. Thats just the start, after the assassination attempt the bride and the guy that drove her to the wedding of sitting back at the place of the reception. They talk and then he says, let me help you clean up, unbelievable how they react after something is troubling as an assassination attempt. They're worried about cleaning up and it goes on from there just kinda a hokey.

After watching the first six episodes on Prime,, I'm ready to watch season 2. To be honest, two shows in season 1 were pretty awful and had a totally different feeling, but the other episodes were so good I stuck with it. The basic premise is that the lead character was an urban cop in Marseille and had his fill of the city life, particularly as it pertained to his line of work. He and his new colleagues at the extremely casual rural police station are quite believable and dedicated get neither respect nor cooperation from the citizenry, but the keep plugging away. For viewers who aren't quite fluent in French, most characters in the series speak fairly clearly and free of difficult regional dialects.

All the seasons are listed on IMDB under the lead character's name, "Alex Cesar" as it is called in France. PBS shows it as "The Mountain Detective" but as seems to be normal doesn't have all the seasons. Just Watch is even less helpful- it is under "The Mountain Detective" and only had a single season as of this writing. It's not apparent why the show needed to be renamed at all but may have something to do with it being subtitled and presumably distributed by way of the United Kingdom. Hopefully IMDB AI will screen this review and correct the error! I am sure there is a better way to do it but I don't know how.

This film is part of a series titled Alex Hugo on IMDb but The Mountain Detective on Prine and PBS. Somehow this episode has been given the original title and is out of order. I hope IMDb can fix this.

It is an excellent series. The main character, Alex Hugo, is a retired policeman who moved to a mountainous area and assists the police in that area. He also works with some agents who work fighting terrorism. The scenery is extraordinarily beautiful. I'm not sure where it was filmed but I'd sure like to go there. The acting is very, very good. And the episodes I've seen deal with issues that are contemporary and significant today. I love this series.