Here’s the timeline: Spade and the daughter arrive in France in 1955. The town has a history, like most places in France, of having been occupied by the Germans during the war. A lot of everything has to do with the French Resistance and those who conspired with the Nazis. We find out Gabrielle’s husband did. The movie fast-forwards 8 years - 1963. You see Spade visit the cemetery and you see the grave marker Gabrielle Spade dod 1961. So without saying anything, you know they got married and she died and he’s been there two years after her death. Then, in flashbacks, you get to know Gabrielle.
I actually agree with another poster here and you, it is a bit slow in some parts and I think just seeing one episode a week - it’s not the kind of series where you remember everyone. I often said to myself - who’s Marguerite or Gabrielle? Who is Philippe and Jean-Pierre? And then to complicate things - you find out who the French resistant fighters are and then comes those who participated in the Algerian War and those who hated de Gaulle. The pied noirs, those who were French but lived in Algeria, wanted Algeria to remain French. And that’s the reason for the OAS - the far right group who stood for this. And, then comes the story with hiding the kid and don’t forget, the weird couple, and the daughter and the nun massacre. I am going to wait until the last episode drops and watch the whole thing because it’s losing its cohesion for me being doled out bit by bit. But it is a really good production and fun to look it. The dialogue is fantastic.
Since the plot is a bit convoluted, it is more like Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep than Spade in The Maltese Falcon, which was easy to get. If they get the okay for a S2, I bet it will go back to San Francisco.
There’s no CGI with Clive. That’s him with a tan.
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TrentnQuarantino (9443)
a year ago
> who’s Marguerite or Gabrielle? Who is Philippe and Jean-Pierre?
Exactly ... the scenes are often dark or blurry and there is nothing to distinguish the characters, and not enough reinforcement.
If you really want to see a series that has this problem in "spades" so to speak, it's the Chinese TV 30-episode series with inadequate subtitles "Three Body". It is awesome, really great, but it is slow, tedious in many places, but one of the best real Science Fiction series out there.
> There’s no CGI with Clive. That’s him with a tan.
How old is that guy? I have difficulty believing that, but if so - kudos to him for staying in such great shape.
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