The commissioner Jules Maigret is quite ready to go on holiday.In Paris the team suffers the heat of middle august and is preoccupied by a serial killer who attacks alone ladies and steals her savings.Suddenly there is an alarm, somebody has broken the glass of an emergency phone booth of "Police Secours".And then the notice of the killing of an old lady.The brother of the policeman Lecoeur may involved, because the victim is his mother-in-law and he had some troubles with her.Then comes another alarm in another part of the city.Besides a young, who could be a witness of the murder has disappeared.Does somebody send a message through the alarm system?
I enjoyed very much this criminal investigation story: the tremendous heat, the anguish of the father for his son and the collaboration of Ginou with her colleagues to find the child.
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Maigret was running out of steam
gatsby916061 July 2020
This episode comes near the end of the long running French series adapted from the mystery novels of Georges Simenon and it is apparent the show has worn down and star Bruno Cremer merely going through the paces seeming to be bored.
Neither story nor Cremer exhibit any spark. Most of the action takes place inside the police station giving it a static stage feel. Maigret often wordlessly walks around sucking on his trademark pipe as if killing screen time. Other characters carry dialogue in sometimes pointless yak yak yak. Procedures are drawn out and little interest is aroused by the crime mystery. The entire final season has steadily deteriorating.
Neither story nor Cremer exhibit any spark. Most of the action takes place inside the police station giving it a static stage feel. Maigret often wordlessly walks around sucking on his trademark pipe as if killing screen time. Other characters carry dialogue in sometimes pointless yak yak yak. Procedures are drawn out and little interest is aroused by the crime mystery. The entire final season has steadily deteriorating.
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