One of the current 'Walter Presents' picks of foreign-language television on the 4 family, this six-parter is pretty timely in the wake of the 2015 attacks in Paris. The President is assassinated but no-one claims responsibility. As always in a power vacuum, various ministers jostle for power, by fair means or foul, and one of their main assets is the modern spin doctor. At the emotional heart are a pair of these sharp operators, Simon Kapita (Bruno Walkowitz) and Ludovic Desmeuze (Gregory Fitoussi), old friends but divided by their current jobs supporting opposing candidates for power. Fitoussi will be familiar to British viewers from 'Spiral', 'Mr. Selfridge' and 'Odyssey'.
This is the sort of thing that can be slick to the point of superficiality, and it keeps up the pace with various skullduggeries and deals going on, but Walkowitz makes a sympathetically human agent for truth in the treacherous world around him. This looks set to tackle sexism and racism, not to mention the deep unpleasantness at the heart of the democratic establishment, head on.
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