Witnesses, Series 1

Witnesses, Series 1

by Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux; dir. Hervé Hadmar

(Channel 4, 2015) [subtitled, from ‘Les Témoins’ (La Une, 2014)]

6-part French miniseries. While Marie Dompnier is convincing as detective Sandra Winckler, the production as a whole suffers from manufactured intrigue (Thierry Lhermitte, in particular, is enigmatic without purpose) and a relentlessly over-scored, washed-out moodiness. The wolf is pure MacGuffin, inconsistently pursued.