![]() ![]() So as per usual, Spiral keeps us busy with different plots, but there are also various knotty themes which are explored with habitual subtlety. Elsewhere, Laure’s staunch policing partner Gilou (Thierry Godard) has an unstable girlfriend to occupy his time. Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) has to cope with a traumatic event that knocks her for six, while Laure undergoes a turbulent time as a new mother. ![]() As per usual, the subplots come thick and fast once the main story really starts to motor. Beckriche (Valentin Merlet), a hard-nosed, dead-eyed, exacting operator, formerly of the Fraud squad, duly makes life difficult. The killing of one of their own unavoidably stokes tensions, but adding to the police team’s problems, they also have to deal with a new boss. Each of our characters comes to examine the cost of a life in law enforcement, and the effect their work has had on them. However, though our workaholics remain as committed as ever through all this, series six finds the show in an unusually reflective mood. Among other things, Laure (Caroline Proust) dives straight back into work after having had her baby, Tintin’s (Fred Bianconi) wife hands him divorce papers, and Judge Roban (Philippe Duclos) finds his already precarious state of health worsening. Amidst the twisting plot involving the murder of a police officer, in this series everyone is adjusting to a new world order. However Spiral, the French-language crime drama which follows police officers and lawyers in Paris, is still discovering exciting new avenues to go down. You would be forgiven for thinking that a show in its sixth series was running out of ideas. The Parisian procedural’s sixth series sees its characters’ personal struggles become increasingly important as they grapple with a typically dark, gripping and complex plot. ![]()
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