Dense, engaging, striking … We loved “surface”, the series with Laura Smet and Tomer Sisley

Two fishermen tease the fish on a bucolic lake, without success. Consequently, “I don’t see why we are bent: this lake, it is cursed. However, We should never have left it all below, “says one. However, But who is there in depths, precisely? Meanwhile, Cans, one of which stands out with the current. Consequently, Change of plan: an injured in the bloody face lies on a stretcher pushed at high speed in the. Moreover, corridor of a hospital. Consequently, “Woman 35 years old, injured by bullet. Consequently, Facial trauma, ”we hear. Furthermore, Thus starts “Surface”. Therefore, the new series of France Télévisions, put online in its entirety in preview on the site France.TV from this Thursday August 21 before its broadcast on France 2 from Monday September 1 at 9:10 pm.

The young woman from dense, engaging, striking … we the stretcher, disfigured in intervention, is Noémie Chastain, embodied by Laura Smet … which we then find in the small Gare d’Avalona, ​​in Occitanie. We only see her in profile but the gaze of the local lieutenant. Romain, who welcomes him suddenly freezes: “You will end up getting used to it,” said the Parisian police captain assigned to this Aveyron police station to assess the possibility of closing it. Not frankly delighted with this forced convalescence. she speaks little but we guess her trauma by discovering the scars that eat her face, her penchant for watered evenings and her fear of weapons.

The tranquility of the town where it was put on the closet is upset by the discovery of a skull. the skeleton of a child in the arched barrel of the lake where the ancient village rests, overwhelmed 23 years ago after the construction dense, engaging, striking … we of a dam. At the same time, three kids were volatilized. Dirty affair for the captain. his new team including Romain the comrade of the Little disappeared and the son of Madam Mayor, Milk le Novice, Nadège La Goudouée, Didier Le Lourdaud. Other cans with their macabre content are found. Suspicions are increasing … the pressure rises.

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An adaptation that takes scriptwriting liberties

And this is the success of this thriller adapted from the eponymous novel of Olivier Norek: to probe the psychology of the protagonists. all damaged for two decades, the torn farmer and his sick wife, the aggressive father who did not recover, the friendly gnawed by the guilt of having survived … and this cop whose memories of another much more distant trauma are also on the surface. Only the duo of brothers diving of the dense, engaging, striking … we river. responsible for surveying the waters, brings a little light thanks to the humor of one, Hugo, embodied by Tomer Sisley.

The six episodes take their time. We are seized by silences. pain, tight or aerial plans, the effects of the underwater scenes in the ruins of the reconstituted swallowed village. The faithful of Olivier Norek. the purists, will not find all the ingredients of his thriller there: this creation stands out by sometimes taking scriptwriting liberties (here the mayor is a woman, the lake is not emptied, the heroine suffers with several titles …), by accentuating the dramatic intensity.

Nevertheless. Just. dense, engaging, striking … we Laura Smet shines beyond her look of fire in her dark tunes by deploying a palette of emotions while her character rebuilds, evacuates her anger, weaves links over her stay and the advance of the investigation. She is surrounded by Tomer Sisley and a host of talents to discover in this darling, dense and engaging intrigue.