Another French police procedural, but this one’s more
violent than ‘Black Spot’. It also lacks the supernatural element, and it’s
from the south of the country, not the east. The makers of ‘Blood Coast’ have
found a way to twist the standard plotline because Lyes Benamar (Tewfik Jallab)
is helping a local drug lord (Samir Boitard) to run his cartel.
Alica Vidal (Jeanne Goursaud) comes in from Paris to find
who killed her father and joins Lyes and his group of crazies as they try to
close down a group of criminals led by Franck Murillo (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who’re
muscling in on Ali’s territory.
The run-down streets of Marseilles add flavour as do the
seaside locations, this show reminded me of the docuseries about the disappearance
of Madeleine McCann, there’s something about Mediterranean places that reminds
us of the high life, you know the Riviera etcetera, but in the hands of Kamel
Guemra it seems like it’s always been lethal. Just the sort of place you would
imagine a small girl being kidnapped in.
The ending of ‘Blood Coast’ is decisive but you can see how a good scriptwriter might resuscitate the franchise for a second season. If one eventuated I’d definitely watch it.
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