Sakho & Mangane

This series is a fresh, new and entertaining script. Some parts are funny, some serious, some magical. It combines perfectly the sights of Dakar in Senegal, the culture of this African nation, the detectivesque plot, the romance of young people. I really liked this series. I have seen so many American or British police/detectives series that this is a fresh approach, from a culture so distant to me that really entertains. Kudos to all the production team!

Not perfect, far from it, but pure entertainment... humor, mystery, love, urbanism, mysticism....and a great way to discover West African culture, far from stereotypes. Great music, good photography. A Dakar never seen before on TV!

The creator of the movie Mass Seck a Senegalese director showed samples of the episodes to canal which in turn changed the names of the actors to make it their movies. Seck filed to sue canal for Plagiarism. All the evidences showed canal STOLE HIS WORK! It the grabbing culture of westerners even with intellectual properties. First it was Phillip Niang the creator according to Canal and then they said Jean Luc Herbulot created the series! The latter confirmed he didn't create the serie. They took his DIVISION X and turned it into Sakho and Mangane. Canal est entrain d'arracher les idees de jeunes africains pour en faire sa propre production. And the group canal pays the people in the justice system in senegal for example, to STEAL PROPERTIES OF AFRICANS.

I wish there were many more seasons... The basic idea of the series is great in its own anyway but the kind of cheesy n sloppy parts (or the lack of details in some aspects) makes it all the more pleasureable. I'm bored with super-sophisticated / super-serious series. This is true TV fun. My thanks to the crew!

Clearly this kind of show has a much smaller budget. Once you take that into consideration you can just enjoy this show from Senegal. There's some African mythologie in it. Love it.