Cannes Confidential
Opposite sides of the law attract.
Gutsy French detective Camille Delmasse loves her job and her family fiercely. After her father, the former police chief, is accused of corruption, Camille is determined to clear his name. She coerces help from suave con man Harry King, who's in Cannes on a secret quest of his own. Can the sparring duo work together to uncover a conspiracy?
Wokeness: 60%
Overall Score: 20%
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NoWo
Extreme(ly unlikable) girl boss on the French Riviera
Skipped through 2 episodes, couldn't watch.
Tries to be a mix of The Persuaders and Castle with current-year updated aesthetics. At least succeeds in the script emasculating the charismatic, hyper-competent male lead.
So yeah, Castle.
As for the two female leads (yeah, two, might be a lesbian arc in there in further episodes), the actresses are true to their characters.
Professionally pathetic.
As cops, they should lose their job and freedom twice or thrice an episode. They are actually worse than Crockett and Tubbs. In between violating code, regulation, law and common sense, they bark at every male in sight.
As actresses, well, they shouldn't have gotten the job to begin with. And, contrary to their likely opinion and the judgement pushed on by the script (they are the chosen ones that every male yearns for), clearly not attractive enough to compensate for their wooden acting.
Planks, really. Utterly stiff, and flat on both sides. Don't know if easy to lay down. Don't care either.
To be fair, they are able to alternate between resting bitch face and talking bitch face, so I suppose there's that.
The male/female dynamic is the only woke component as far as I saw, disregarding the background virtue-signaling social stance of well, everybody. But it's in your face, at least mine, all the time, and extremely loud.
Plot is cookie-cutter, episodic whodunit of the week. With beyond cliche, formulaic overarching plots for the leads (estranged teenage daughter and wrongly-accused good-cop father).
Also, fight scenes, thankfully short. Most Europeans seem unable to correctly hold a firearm. Must be genetics. As in missing chromosomes.
Fisticuffs reminded me of a simpler, more innocent time: Sinanju Master Chiun says, they move like baboons with two club feet.
Aside from the main characters and script, well, Cannes is a beautiful city, and secondary characters are all smokeshows. Good actresses too, quite possibly. Same goes for the males, probably, I can't really judge.
Wasted almost 40 minutes on this, which I could have used to rewatch Remo Williams...
Created: 12-04-2023