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| Living on the edge: the anti-heroes of BRAQUO. Images: STUDIO CANAL/FX. |
Having tried, and mostly failed, to keep within the ever changing blurred lines of modern-day law and order, and despite often noble intentions whilst keeping their own inner loyalties and personal codes intact, it looked like the end of the line for the SDPJ squad of the hit French police thriller series BRAQUO-think THE SHIELD and THE SWEENEY combined, but with added seediness!- led by the grizzled, world weary but compelling Jean-Hughes Anglade (to me a continental version of Roy Scheider) as Eddy Caplan, whose tough but likable quartet (including Joseph Malerba as bald and bulky Walter Morlighem, Nicolas Duvauchelle as the always on the edge of drink and drugs annihilation Theo Vachewski and Karole Rocher as the vulnerable but loyal Roxane Delgado) found themselves at the end of the critically acclaimed first season in just about the worst life/career positions possible: their more corrupt and slimy superiors finally victorious in demolishing the team and what remains of their already tarnished reputations. Starting on FX UK HD from Sunday April 29th, the intriguing and surely more ambitious second season begins with Caplan put on remand, whilst the rest of the squad, either demoted or fired, are tested to their fragmented emotional limits. But when 12 people are killed in a brutal and bloody armed robbery linked to gold bullion, its culprits revealed to be four ex- mercenaries out for revenge against the people that previously set them up, the grungy but dedicated gang are soon back in action, dispensing their own unique brand of head-busting crime-fighting, determined to bring down what will be their most formidable and vicious adversaries yet (whilst also still locked in battle against old enemies, too) and also surely taking a share interest in the captured spoils...
Specially shot Season Two trailer: Braquo Season 2 Teaser, Premieres on April 29th at 10pm on FX - YouTube
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| Jean-Hughes Anglade is superb as the in-it-up-to-his neck Eddy Caplan. |
Created by relatively new French film and TV visionary Oliver Marchal, a former policeman himself, who brings a tough and uncompromising sensibility to it all-effectively filmed on the streets of Paris, alongside a fine ensemble cast, its no surprise that US TV will shortly be making their own version of this compulsive series.
Check out the UK FX site here: About - Braquo - Shows - FXUK
Series One of BRAQUO is now available on DVD and Blu-ray from STUDIO CANAL
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