Is Engrenages popular in France?

“Spiral,” a French crime series originally called “Engrenages,” is a huge hit in France, as well as on BBC Four in Britain, and it has found a devout American following on Netflix, which offers the first three seasons.

Is Spiral a good TV series?

Spiral is/was a wonderful show. It is such a shame though that it was over so soon, considering how consistently good it was it deserved much longer. Regardless, Spiral is still must-see television. The production values are superb, with great photography and lighting that brings a genuine atmosphere.

Do Laure and Gilou end up together?

It wasn’t explained how Laure Berthaud had managed to conquer her crippling phobia of motherhood and become an almost-satisfactory mother to her daughter Romy, but this helped set the trajectory for a finale which found her reunited with Gilou, still standing after several near-death experiences incurred while he …

Is Engrenages realistic?

“Spiral (Engrenages)” is the first realistic “police-justice” series developed by Canal+ and is now its longest-running series on the air.

Are French police like in Spiral?

In Spiral, which is shown in France on Canal Plus, the pay channel that has about five million subscribers, the cops are overwhelmingly white and the people they arrest are from ethnic minorities — which is how it is in the suburbs of Paris and other big French cities.

Is Spiral like the wire?

For two long years, I have lied extravagantly about how much I love The Wire. At the precise point that it becomes cliche to rave on about how much one adores The Wire, I have fallen for its shiftier, darker, French-ier counterpart. …

How realistic is Spiral?

The fictional events in the BBC TV drama Spiral are remarkably similar to real life in Paris, says Adam Sage. Four white police officers move to arrest a 22-year-old black man who tries to fight them off.

Is Spiral a sequel to Saw?

Chris Rock is starring in a new Saw movie, the ninth in the series going all the way back to the original movie from 2004. The movie is titled Spiral: From the Book of Saw and takes place in continuity with the other movies without being a direct sequel to any of them (including the last film, 2017’s Jigsaw).

Is Spiral true to life?