The Guardian
The chemistry is sweet, the location beautiful and there’s a crime every week that’s not too difficult to wrap up neatly. It’s the traditional dance of the minor cop show If all cop shows, celebrity travelogues and cooking competitions were to disappear overnight, the world of television would risk imploding. They are the load-bearing walls that sustain the whole structure. The sheer volume of these shows means that inevitably, there are tiny, specialised niches within each genre. Take Canadian crime drama Saint-Pierre, for example. Have you ever wondered what a slightly grittier Death in Paradise might look like? If so, you’re in luck. Just to make things even more familiar, Death in Paradise alumna Joséphine Jobert can be found in Saint-Pierre, too, co-starring as deputy chief Geneviève “Arch” Archamboult, a Parisian cop who, for reasons which will eventually become clear, has been transplanted to the tiny north Atlantic French territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. She is joined by another mildly troubled blow-in, Allan Hawco’s Royal Newfoundland Constabulary inspector Donny “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, a detective who has been shunted into obscurity after digging a little too vigorously into the nefarious deeds of a politician on his previous beat. Perhaps inevitably in this context, he’s struggling with a difficult private life, which lends him a slightly dishevelled air. He’s also prone to sea sickness, which, given his new placement on a small island, is not ideal. Pretty much as we meet him, he’s hacking up his breakfast into a nearby rockpool. The locals are not sympathetic. Continue reading...
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