The Sketch Artist (Portrait - Robot)

Like the other reviewer mentioned, this is a very watchable show. Yes, there are obvious choices in characters and surroundings, but that's because it works! Just like how I hate it when they implement all sorts of weird or new factors to a romantic comedy, when all we always want to see is girl meets boy, something happens that keeps them apart, but they find eachother in the end. With detectives it's the same. And does it have to be completely credible? No, then I'll watch the news for what actually happens in the world.

What I also like is how they combine old detective work with new methods, exact with less exact science, and use electronics and social media like they are actually used nowadays.

The only downside to this old (en new) skool detective show is that they always have to use grewsome storylines. And since having a baby my mind does not want to handle this anymore while watching a show for fun. But this show kept me fascinated enough to overrule that feeling. Hoping to see the next season soon.

By the end of series 2, I'm afraid I was bored with the characters, bored with their personal problems, which sometimes just swamped the crimes being investigated, and bored with the visual aesthetics. Some time ago, I ducked out of another Canadian series, 'The Coroner', after the last 20 minutes of the first episode attempted to make me interested in the private life of the central character. I can take a certain amount of this - it goes with the territory - but here the setup with the four central characters appears to have been strategically devised with this aspect in mind. I like crime dramas but I do not watch soap opears. Adieu a tous.

Both my wife and I have watched the series. I binged it over a week and my wife is still catching up. There are some glaring holes in the storylines and also some actual facts pertaining to the characters as to their conditions that are well documented and spoken about on social media but the characters are naively unaware. That can be annoying at times but correctable in later series if the show continues. It is TV, after all, so we enjoy it for what it is. Critics who are nitpicking are just looking for recognition and can go elsewhere for their desires. Even if we do have to watch it with subtitles and annoying commercial breaks.

The trouble is though that the prémisses and the characters are not particularly believable. Remy Girard playing seasoned detective Bernard Dupin was seventy when the series was filmed and admits to being that age as part of a plot in Season Two. It's inconceivable that he'd be on field work as he's grossly overweight and can barely walk. And he's way past the age for retirement. Even worse, he subdues fit young thugs and hitmen without any trouble at all. In real life these guys would have pulverised him.

As for Eve Garance, the sketch artist, it just isn't credible that she gets witnesses to remember small details such as a mole or an earring, or even eye colour, in the contest of a rapid set of events or just a glimpse of the perp.

Maryse and Anthony have important supporting rôles as the head of the unit and CSI boy respectively. The writers seem to have woken up to the fact that they should have written in a techy IT person from the beginning so Elektra had a far more prominent place in the action in season two.

In the background, we have not particularly convincing human interest stories about the five main characters.

The crimes they deal with are over the top even for north America.

I admit I binge-watched but it's still pretty rubbishy. However, the actors and the tight direction kept it together for the main part.

We had three major cliffhangers at the end of season two. I assume a third one will come next year.

I love this series!

I do not know why I hope to see, I don't usually see series in French. I am one big fan of the crime series, investigation and judicial cases.

This series is very emotional, thrillish and tense, with many messages , from those to learn and think, and the characters are very interesting.

I hope for a next season.