Tony

Usually I like this kind of series from urban ghetos ... I was impatiently waiting for this one. But... No, sorry, even if the pitch is not bad, but really simple, the series fall into too stereotypical "clichés". Above all, we hear insults (btw always the same : Son of... and Shut up...) literally every 30 seconds, that's quickly becomes very very very annoying... 5/10 for the effort.

If you haven't lived in a french project, you can't get this. This is the closest thing i've seen to real life.

This might be in the South, but all projects are like this in the old country.

We don't need the wire, nor HBO.

Half the dudes in there aren't even actors, just guys living their daily life on camera.

The acting can be off from time to time. But the camera work is great i really liked the story as well. I think the fact there is no overacting or expression of emotions, actually ads to the story. The 1 star ratings are clearly from people who never experienced banlieue life and its inhabitants.

Adapted from a film by the same name and turned into a "found footage" style episodic gangster caper Caïd can have a wonderfully kinetic energy to it but often lapses into tropes and rather artificial contrivances. A lot of the time when characters angrily bark "why are you filming this?" you have to agree. The short 10 minute blasts of it can work for and against it as well, and it seems a shame they didn't play with the running times a bit more as the endings can feel abrupt.

It's not all bad though - it's nice to get a glimpse of a fairly underrepresented part of France and I felt for both Franck and Tony, trapped in their violent predicaments by different forces. So yes - not a revelation but certainly interesting and the first French series I've seen the entire way through.

Just one thing : love it ... a lil bit exag. But love it.