Braquo season 2: the rules of the game have changed
The art of telling the story of a series without giving too much away. Indeed, I was lucky enough to preview the first episodes of this new season. The first season had been really convincing. Needless to say, this sequel was eagerly awaited. And so we find our four battered cops in a new adventure full of twists and turns.
At the helm are two excellent directors: Philippe Haïm and Eric Valette. Abdel Raouf Dafri, screenwriter of the film Un prophète and the series La Commune, is the writer.
In short, all the ingredients are there for quality fiction, and this is the case.
Let’s get down to the Pitch: the descent into hell undertaken by the members of the SDPJ 92 group stops at the top of a hill. Setting out on a crusade in the name of their friend’s tarnished memory, they are surrounded by police special forces. End of the first season. The time for accountability has come. An emergency meeting of the disciplinary board remands Caplan in custody pending trial; he faces ten years in prison. The board removes Morlighem and Delgado from their officer ranks and reassigns them to junior police posts. As for Théo Vachewski, on account of the coke found in his home during the search, he was struck off the police force for life.From now on, each of them must come to terms with himself and try to find a balance and a meaning to his existence. In a wealthy housing estate on the outskirts of Paris, four men murder twelve to get their hands on four hundred kilos of gold.The robbers are former soldiers who have returned from the hell of Angola to take revenge on those who plunged them there. During a cold-blooded execution, one of the soldiers is arrested and taken to the prison where Eddy Caplan is being held. Caplan is offered a simple deal: escape with him to infiltrate the bank robbers. In exchange, Caplan is promised amnesty for himself and the members of his group. Now alone in the wilderness, used and ultimately betrayed, let down by the very people who gave them their mandate, Caplan’s group gradually reassembles to fight the battle that is now being waged on two fronts: the cops and the crooks.
For this sequel, Jean-Hugues Anglade is as powerful as ever. He carries the series on his shoulders. Braquo, season 2 is still full of action and suspense. The series also introduces a gallery of new characters: a Jewish criminal mother, an Armenian bandit, Flemish drug dealers. There’s also the gangster Serge Lemoine, played with great charisma by Alain Figlarz. Le Bihan as the OCRB boss is again impeccable. François Levantal, a veteran of dark thrillers, also features in the credits. The atmosphere is always very dark, with settings of car wrecks and sinister apartments. The plot explores the upper echelons of power, and this is the real originality of this sequel.
In the end, Braquo season 2, which straddles the line between crime thriller and urban western, continues the path blazed by the first season.
Braquo season 2
From Monday, November 21
On Canal +
8 episodes of 52 minutes Created by Olivier Marchal and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri with Edgar Marie, David Defendi, Philippe Haïm and Eric Valette Directed by Philippe Haïm (episodes 1 to 4) and Eric Valette (episodes 5 to 8). With Jean-Hugues Anglade (Eddy Caplan), Nicolas Duvauchelle (Théo Vachewski) , Karole Rocher (Roxane Delgado), Joseph Malerba (Walter Morlighem), Samuel Le Bihan(Gabriel Marceau), Hubert Koundé(Jonas Luanda), Alain Figlarz (Serge Lemoine), Geoffroy Thiebaut (Roland Vogel)…
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