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Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light
Final series of the show that s more than just a policier
by Adam SweetingSunday, 10 January 2021
The discovery of a grotesque murder is the traditional way to begin a new series of
Spiral, and this time around the cadaver belonged to a young Moroccan boy, nicknamed Shkun. He’d been beaten to death with an iron bar and stuffed into a laundromat washing machine.
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Caroline Proust (Laure Berthaud) in “Spiral.” Photo courtesy of Photo courtesy of Caroline Dubois / Son et Lumière /
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Still atop the
New York Times list of must-see TV, “Spiral” (“Engrenages”), the police drama from France, launches its eighth and final season on January 5 on MHz Choice, with a release of a new episode each week. Marine Francou supervised the writing staff on what was her plotline for this season. She doesn’t disappoint.
As explained in the review of Season 7, “Spiral” is an intense look at the French justice system from all the intermeshed points of view. Beloved and complicated judge advocate Roban is no longer part of the team. His forced retirement has removed him from the central role he played in years past when adjudicating the solution of the crimes the police of the Second District were tasked with solving.