Season 1, Episode 5
Date of airing: May 4, 2021 (La Une, Belgium), May 13, 2021 (TF1, France)
Audience information: 9.64 million viewers, 39.7 percent share with Viewers 4+ (TF1, France)
Written by: Julien Anscutter, Charlene Galan, Alice Chegaray-Breugnot
Directed by: Laurent Tuel
”Crazy. He discovers that he has another daughter, and moments later, he is murdered. What do you think?”
“He should have used a condom?”
This show knows how to craft emotionally charged murder cases of the week. The killers do their thing and get rid of their victim because, in some way or fashion, their hearts are broken, and they find themselves in an emotional minefield. Taking revenge for robbing your mother blind? It's an emotionally charged murder in the first degree. Killing a potential organ donor who happened to be an abusive asshole, so that you can save the love of your life? It's another emotionally charged murder in the first degree. Plus, this episode had a cute dog I just wanted to take into my arms and snuggle with, so it's automatically at least half a star just for Ryan Gosling.
Additional plus points for the case giving Morgane some issues to deal with in her own rights. Five episodes of the show, and it's clear that she is kind of a crazy character who riles people up with her attitude rather than being the woman who looks behind her emotions and allows herself to feel. While I don't believe for a second that Romain is dead (no one cared to identify the body, and just accepted that the corpse looking like Romain was enough to solve that case?), I loved that the backstory was used to have Morgane cry for the first time. She was a real character here for once – more of that, please!
Not to mention that Karadec being there during Morgane's realization that Romain is dead helped move the slow-moving plot along, as the two eventually become the show's power couple. Currently, they're in the “they won't” stage of the will-they/won't-they premise. It will take a while for either of them to realize their crushes for one another and go for it.
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| One happy family. Or so everyone from the outside looking in would think. |
