Beyond Polar Park

English subtitles for the sixth and last episode of Polar Park are completed and uploaded. It was a lot of fun revisiting the lead characters, and seeing the different direction the adaptation took the premise. I liked the charming ending that was given to the series, as much as the rather dark conclusion of the film.

Jeremy Barlozzo (left) as Barlozzo,
and Julien Drion as McCree.

Shout-outs too to the gendarmes McCree and Barlozzo, who come across as buffoons when first introduced, but acquit themselves well in the finale. Incidentally, Jeremy the-musician-not-the-Brigadier Barlozzo is a singer-songwriter who had a role in some of the series' music (though I tried but eventually gave up transcribing "Change Your Mind," his big number at the end of episode 6, because some of his English singing is undecipherable).

I'm not sure what I'll tackle next. Therefore a few words about ongoing projects:

• Falco (2013, four seasons).  I found this series in the autumn of 2022 when I was looking for more French police procedurals. The title character is played by the unexpectedly named Sagamore Stevenin, as a Paris detective who spends 20 years in a coma, wakes up in 2013, and goes back to work under orders of his old partner.  It's as lone-wolf-cop-who-plays-by-his-own-set-of-rules hokey as you'd expect, but solidly done, especially good are Clement Manuel as Chevalier the straightlaced partner, and Alexia Barlier (who is great in everything) as Eva Blum, the squad's #3. The next episode I could start subtitling is S02E06.
  
  
• Riviere-Perdu season 2 (2024). Looks like a standard-but-entertaining Gendarmes & Police Nationale procedural, starring respectively Nicolas Gob (Art Of Crime) and Barbara Cabrita (Luther season 1) as cops working on a child kidnapping case in the Pyrenees. Advantage: There are existing French subs I could work from.
  
  
• Piste Noire (2023). When a French murder doesn't happen in the woods, it happens on the slopes. This ski resort gendarme mystery appeared to be the hot property last year. Advantage: there are no subs yet (in any language) on Opensubtitles, so there's high demand--right?  Disadvantage: all the dialogue under music and ambient noise makes it look scary to subtitle (remind me sometime to tell you about Deux Gouttes d'Eau). 

That's it for everything I have on the laptop ready to cue up. Which will I choose? Prior to Polar Park, my go-to was Falco.

I will warn you that whatever I choose, I will drop everything to work on new episodes of HPI or Capitaine Marleau should any air. I understand there may be new Marleaus in March.