Marseille (TV series)
| Marseille | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Political drama |
| Created by | Dan Franck |
| Starring | |
| Composer(s) | Alexandre Desplat |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language(s) | French |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Pascal Breton |
| Location(s) | Marseille |
| Distributor | Federation Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original release | 5 May 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Marseille is a French television series created by Dan Franck starring Gérard Depardieu. The series is the first French original production for Netflix, which ordered the project to series on 10 July 2015. The eight-episode first season premiered worldwide on Netflix on 5 May 2016. A second season, set to air in 2017, was ordered on June 6, 2016.
The show was released worldwide on Netflix in May 2016, and the first two episodes have aired on TF1.
After 20 years as mayor of Marseille, Robert Taro (Depardieu) enters into a war of succession with his former protégé turned rival Lucas Barres (Benoît Magimel). Both men are members of the "UPM" party, based on the centre-right UMP (Union for a Popular Movement).
In France, the series received a mostly negative reaction from the press. Pierre Sérisier, writing for Le Monde, called it an "industrial accident". Télérama gave the series a "red card", while Alain Carrazé on Europe 1 referred to it as something from "the 90s" with "cartoonish and ridiculous dialogue".
However, reception outside France was more positive.
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