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Huge in France (2019)
Embarassing
I'm constantly looking for new French series to watch with my partner to help him improve his french. I was really happy to find a series with Gad as he's indeed "huge" in France and I grew up there. What can I say ? I couldn't finish the first episode. The whole cast's acting is so bad it's offensive. I didn't laugh for a single second. Every line was so poorly delivered, so bland. Gad is good for stand up comedy, but most of his movies are just over the top obnoxious, typical predictable boring French comedy that we've been having for the last 20 years.
If it was not for series like Call my agent or Marseille I would definitely say that French cinema is dead, gone, buried. Very sad.
The Victim (2019)
Great
Wonderful Scottish series, the BBC's been doing pretty good job recently. I've found the storyline pretty original. Craig is a brilliant character who makes you doubt till the end. Found the main actress a tiny bit wooden however.
Quicksand (2019)
Brilliant
Another great series from Sweden, they never fail to impress me. True the character were kind of bland (Maja's parents, Amanda especially), and I've found myself being very frustrated by everybody's passive attitude towards Sebastian's shocking behaviour but I imagine it was done on purpose.
Acting wise, all of them were pretty good, especially Sebastian and Maja's lawyer. The storyline was great, we've seen maaaaany crime series using this flashback/present time dynamic and it kind of gets boring after a while but this series pulled it off quite well.
The last episode definitely got me stuck to my screen, trials scenes are usually boring but in this one it was extremely high tension and I loved it (Kudos to the lawyer especially, amazing delivery)