The first episode was taut and gripping. It looked like this was going to be a great mini series despite some over-the-top interventions by the Chloe character. Then it all went haywire. A stabbed person is using a rowing machine after three weeks; they were stabbed five times, lol, in the belly. A day later the same person is dying from septicaemia in a sudden relapse. Voodoo cures them alongside medicinal plants. Now, if there really were such a product, the pharmaceutical companies would be falling over themselves to get their hands on such a powerful antibiotic.
In the final episode we are supposed to believe that the transference of souls from a sacrifice to a long-dead baby can actually happen if done as part of a magic rite. It really is too much.
The character of Chloe is not realistic. She tramples on long-established norms and protocols as a rookie in Cayenne. I don't believe that anyone at all, even someone as wilful as she is meant to be, would blunder into situations and upset procedures and conventions as she did.
I was hoping for so much more from this especially as it had the Arte branding. There were points of interest and I learnt things I hadn't known, much of them about the lawlessness of this French outpost and about trafficking from Brazil of naive young women.
The scenery was rather beautiful but the towns were depressing.
After the ending of Season One it's hard to see how there could be a second season but apparently there is one according to this site. I am in two minds as to whether I'll be watching it if I come across it.
