Incredibly, the show made its debut on BBC Four back in 2006. The judiciary’s headquarters in an ugly ultra-modern skyscraper near La Défense seemed to exist in a separate hermetically-sealed dimension to the fetid Parisian backstreets.Īll of this was adroitly used to illuminate the characters we’ve come to know and, to greater or lesser degrees, love. The depiction of a Paris teeming with squalid people-smugglers and gangs of racketeers and drug-runners was handled with a sense of world-weary resignation. The story of Moroccan teenager Amin, whose murdered body got the investigatory ball rolling in the opening episode, lit a fuse that fizzed through a knotty narrative which asked probing questions about police and legal procedure, the porous boundaries between personal and professional behaviour, and the lengths to which law enforcement agents should be permitted to go in pursuit of the bad and the ugly.
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We saw evidence that on occasion lawyers may be human after all, and there was even the somewhat disorientating semblance of a happy ending (or at least not the bloodbath that had threatened to erupt).Ī series of Spiral often takes a few episodes to crank up a full head of steam, as this one did, but once character, situation and plot start to knit together, it has been as tense and addictive as anything on TV.
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