Amélia Delcourt (Tiphaine Daviot) was fed the news. Her mother, Babeth (Catherine Hosmalin) has a passion for serial killer cases, which she has shared with her daughter throughout her life. As an adult, Amélia logically became a police officer.
And as this four-episode mini-series opens, she has just joined the criminal, who is in fact looking for a formidable serial killer, Shakespeare. Through clumsiness, she derailed months of investigation. Sidelined, she gets bored. And takes a close interest in the disappearance of a teenage girl. Her colleagues have classified her as a runaway, but Amélia has an intuition that the matter is more serious than it seems.
A former alcoholic profiler
With enthusiasm, she launches into the investigation alone. And keeps coming up against a former alcoholic profiler, Daniel Hansen (Éric Cantona). He too is looking for the missing girl, he too caused a catastrophe which sidelined him. Everything contrasts Amélia and Hansen: he is as gruff as she is lively; she is a police officer, therefore subject to a hierarchy, while he works alone.
But she is isolated in her brigade and lives with her mother, while he lives in a truck and no longer has a social life: to regain their stripes, they have no other choice than to unite their solitudes to find this young girl, and perhaps get their hands on the terrible Shakespeare.
Murder Club certainly does not revolutionize the police comedy genre. But the duo between Tiphaine Daviot and Éric Cantona works wonderfully. The difference in age, vision of society, and the incredible situations in which the characters are placed create fun. Tiphaine Daviot’s slaughter is impressive. For this role, she won the prize for best actress in the French competition at the Série Mania festival in 2024.
Murder ClubM6, 9:10 p.m., Tuesday October 29, 2024
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