Someone (Canadian) on my flist recced Saint Pierre last Sunday, and to my huge surprise, I watched all seven episodes of that in the time since. O_O
I started it because the trailer had a bit of French in it - so another attempt from me at more French immersion, but there's barely any. :D
A Newfoundland police detective has to lay low after a media scandal, and the farthest thing his boss can come up with is the French overseas territory of Saint Pierre et Michelon (which is right next to Newfoundland - which I did not know). They do speak French there, but the show has no more than half a dozen sentences of French per ep, everything else is English. I didn't know Allan Hawco before, who came up with, wrote, and produced the show, and also stars in it, but apparently this is not the first time he's done something like this (see Republic of Doyle) - and he's good at it. :D Although I didn't like the way they explained the plot for dummies in some of the episodes. I guess I'm a bit spoiled by HPI, idk? It got on my nerves. Apart from that, the characters are interesting, a lot of them are black/minorities, and the acting is good, too. I also like that they're less trigger-happy than their US equivalents. That said, it didn't grip me at all. (I blame the lack of romance?) If it stopped right now, I would not mind.
Oh, and there was a guest appearance by David Hewlett in ep 4, if anyone cares.
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I started it because the trailer had a bit of French in it - so another attempt from me at more French immersion, but there's barely any. :D
A Newfoundland police detective has to lay low after a media scandal, and the farthest thing his boss can come up with is the French overseas territory of Saint Pierre et Michelon (which is right next to Newfoundland - which I did not know). They do speak French there, but the show has no more than half a dozen sentences of French per ep, everything else is English. I didn't know Allan Hawco before, who came up with, wrote, and produced the show, and also stars in it, but apparently this is not the first time he's done something like this (see Republic of Doyle) - and he's good at it. :D Although I didn't like the way they explained the plot for dummies in some of the episodes. I guess I'm a bit spoiled by HPI, idk? It got on my nerves. Apart from that, the characters are interesting, a lot of them are black/minorities, and the acting is good, too. I also like that they're less trigger-happy than their US equivalents. That said, it didn't grip me at all. (I blame the lack of romance?) If it stopped right now, I would not mind.
Oh, and there was a guest appearance by David Hewlett in ep 4, if anyone cares.