TV

The distinctive feature of Safe, the new TV series created by Harlan Coben, is that it is a collaboration between French premium channel Canal+ and Netflix. And the result is that the series is broadcasted on C8 in France and on Netflix in the rest of the world. The opinion and TV series review of Bulles de Culture on this British thriller with eight episodes.

Based on the eponymous book by American journalist Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize in 2007, the Hulu mini-series The Looming Tower by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright discuss the FBI/CIA rivalry in the late ’90s while the threat Bin Laden and Al Qaeda was growing. The opinion of Bulles de Culture on The Looming Tower season 1, available on Amazon Prime Video from Friday, March 9, 2018 in France.

It was at the cinema Le Grand Rex in Paris that we had the chance to discover in world premiere preview three episodes of Jean-Claude Van Johnson season 1, the first series of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Here is Bulles de Culture’s review of this series by Dave Callaham, available in streaming on Amazon Prime Video from Friday, December 15, 2017.

After Medici, Masters of Florence, Sirens, Riviera season 1 by Neil Jordan is the new prestige series of French SFR Play platform, soon renamed Altice. Our opinion on this first season co-produced with the British channel Sky Atlantic and our interviews of the actors and producers of the series during a press lunch.

With Mathieu Missoffe’s Black Spot (Zone Blanche), let’s go to the imaginary city of Villefranche where there is no church, not always the telephone network and where the homicide rate is six times higher than the national average. Bulles de Culture’s opinion on this crime and fantasy TV series Black Spot season 1, now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

We all remember the images of the Liberation of France, where young French ladies throw out themselves to the neck of American soldiers. But do we know that thousands of them got married to them? The film by Fabrice Cazeneuve and Jean-Claude Grumberg, Cigarettes and Nylons (Cigarettes et bas nylon), will finally tell us their story.    

Back to the funny and well done first episode, They Do It With Mirrors (2013) by Eric Woreth, of the season 2 of a series aired on French television France 2: Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games (Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie).

Meeting under tight surveillance at the Séries Mania festival at Forum des images: the creator of the controversial British series The Promise (2010) was in Paris. Our review on this series.

While the second edition of the Séries Mania festival is going on at the Forum des images (Paris, France) since Monday, a very interesting small conference by journalist Pierre Serisier (Le Monde des Séries) on “American History Revisited” has preceded the projection of the excellent pilot of the American series by David Simon and Eric Overmyer: Treme season 1.

The Mentalist continues to be one of the best detective shows of the moment. This is due to the remarkable performance of Simon Baker, who portrays Patrick Jane, a man, who possesses a great sense of deduction, coupled with the ability to manipulate people to get answers. TV series review by Bulles de Culture.