My first impression of Sky Living's The Tunnel was
it’s a bit slow at the start and not in a cool French type of way, it needed to pick up
speed and it did. Clémence Poésy was great as the miserable straight talking
workaholic Elise Wassermann and the more human British DCI Karl Roebuck’s
(played by Stephen J. Dillane) wise cracks tried to lighten her mood. I do
need to watch it again to piece together all the twists.
The Tunnel
Has my previous post states Channel 4 series – The Returned (les Revants) is currently my favourite new show of 2013. I know the American version of it won’t be half as good as the original. Frenchies + zombies = my television heaven!
Other Frenchie shows I’ve found on my SKY TV channels, on
Sky Arts there was Mansion Close I found it very boring but maybe a programme about
prostitutes back in 17th century isn’t for everyone’s taste. But a sit-com
about the porn industry (only the French could make it) – Hard was hilarious,
very crude but who cares I‘m not a nun and dull Sophie needed to cheer up,
having to run a seedy porn business after she husband died isn’t paradise but
being with the hot Roy the Rod (a sensitive caring porn star) would make even a
nun smile.
Hard
Jo on Fox with Jean Reno wasn’t very French. Reno is the only French guy in it and the rest of the characters are American or in one case a British actress with an American accent. An interesting cop murder drama but more a Paris tourism advert with dead bodies lying around the French capital's popular tourist areas.
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