5.4 /10 1 Votes
40% Rotten Tomatoes Composer(s) Alexandre Desplat Original language(s) French First episode date 5 May 2016 Language French Program creator Dan Franck | 6.9/10 IMDb Created by Dan Franck Country of origin France No. of seasons 1 Network Netflix Genre Political drama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Gérard Depardieu
Benoît Magimel Similar Plus belle la vie, The Get Down, Hemlock Grove, Luke Cage, Un village français Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. Production on the second season will commence on 18 April 2017.
Contents
Marseille tv series title sequence
Release
The show was released worldwide on Netflix in May 2016, and the first two episodes have aired on TF1.
Plot
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).
Critical reception
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.