rhinoceroo wrote:The best TV I've seen this year has been Spiral. French cops/criminals/society show with fantastically drawn characters, probably the best series since Sopranos/Wire.
Streaming on SBS. You can probably miss the first season where it's finding its feet... becomes something different around season 2/3 then keeps getting better. Took me about 3 months earlier this year to get through all of it, barely watching anything else, and haven't found anything to replace it yet. I can now swear incredibly well in French.
Big props to Spiral and also the French espionage series in SBS ‘The Bureau’….both do gritty and realistic really well with tight plot lines . It also helps that the actors look like actual people.