Black Spot: Quand on arrive en ville

June 25, 2019 4:40 PM - Season 1, Episode 1

As Maj. Laurène Weiss and her team work to solve the murder of a local nurse, a new prosecutor arrives to investigate Villefranche's high crime rate. A French-Belgian production streaming in the US on Netflix.
posted by DirtyOldTown (5 comments total)

Yay I binged s 1 and now s2 is up!
posted by miss-lapin at 10:36 PM on June 25, 2019

I've been really enjoying this show.
posted by supermedusa at 9:41 AM on June 27, 2019

I really like this show. The subtitles seem to be jarringly slow/behind the dialogue with some frequency though. Otherwise I really like that I went into this not really knowing anything about it, so even several episodes in, I'm still not sure if it's straightforward or...not.
posted by biscotti at 8:53 AM on June 30, 2019

Interesting how they seem to be setting us up for high weirdness, then wrap everything up neatly by the end of the episode with mundane explanations like a Scooby Doo mystery.

Also kind of funny that they flipped the title in translation from ‘Zone Blanche’ to Black Spot. I guess ‘White Zone’ might read a little different in English, and Dead Zone was already taken.
posted by rodlymight at 5:12 PM on July 1, 2019

I screamed through Season 1.
Now that I am on Season 2, I am still enjoying it, but it has taken me a month to get to the beginning of the sixth episode. I put it on, watch maybe 5 minutes, and fall asleep.
The next night I go back and it's the thing I want to watch, find where I fell asleep, turn it on, fall asleep within five minutes. It's weird.
posted by Seamus at 8:19 AM on November 25, 2019