![]() The story revolves around a suburban woman, Elvira Giannini (Marina Hands), who feels underappreciated for her role in the family. Should you watch this show? Yes, you definitely should, if only to prove that Americans can tolerate a tiny bit of subtitling and that we know where to find Esquire on the dial.The series which is originally called ‘Mytho’ gets its name from the psychological condition of compulsive lying. The other annoying thing is that it constantly bleeps out the many F-words, making it seem like a prudish aunt rather than a rebel-rousing contemporary. Is there anything about the show that is bad? Depending on how much you like blood and gore, some of the clean-up sites can be pretty darn nasty. Maybe that’s what happens when three countries’ worth of people work on a script: they can’t help but find something universal. ![]() Spotless is shot fairly conventionally and finds sources of tension in familiar places (breaking the law, an extramarital affair, trying to overcome old family wounds) but it is just fresh enough that it seems repackaged and rejuvenated. It’s the tug of war between the two, who don’t really trust each other that much, that really drives the show. Just as Jean is being initiated into the crime world, Martin is being welcomed into the domestic sphere, making both of them fish out of water with only each other to rely on. Grondin and Ménochet’s performances are compelling, giving the brothers layered personalities when they very easily could have been just pale imitations of people that we’ve seen in other dramas. I think most of that is due to the central characters, in both of whom we see a little bit of ourselves, whether it’s the frustrated family man or the toughened rogue. ![]() That doesn’t mean it’s not entirely engaging. There is little surprising about it and it doesn’t try to withhold information about its characters make them mysterious or enigmatic. It is tremendously straightforward in a very polished and unfussy way. It has a lot of hallmarks of what we consider “prestige TV” these days – male anti-heroes, existential crises, far too much gore, an obsession with crime and violence, a family falling apart – but it doesn’t come off as derivative while managing to be compulsively watchable. I take that back: it’s very good, period. Is it any good? For the first show on a channel that most people don’t even know they have, it is quite good. Don’t you love the world of modern television production in the global village? So this is a French show about guys in the UK and it’s being shown in the US? Yes. Apparently they’re not nearly as afraid of subtitles as American audiences are. ![]() It was actually made by French studio Canal Plus and aired in France in March. The two brothers, though French is their native tongue, only speak English to each other, which is a little bit odd.ĬSI veteran Corinne Marrinan and Shameless writer Ed McCardie created Spotless. If the flashbacks are in France, does that mean there are subtitles? Yes, but fewer than you might imagine. The dynamic of the two brothers also adds a little bit of flavor as they try to overcome their differences and the traumas of their childhood in France – told each episode in flashbacks – and find a way to relate to each other, even if it is through crime. However, the show definitely veers a little bit more towards the outrageous than Breaking Bad. He’s hot-tempered and a bit of a putz, but his heart is usually in the right place. Martin is just like Jesse Pinkman, though about 20 years older and 50lbs heavier. Jean is the Walter White, transgressing not only to get himself out of a financial pickle but because his bland family life is a bit of a disappointment. They both find the solutions to their problems when they start doing body clean-ups for a mild-mannered British gangster, Nelson Clay (Brendan Coyle, who plays Mr Bates on Downton Abbey). After decades of estrangement, his brother Martin (Denis Ménochet), a career petty criminal, arrives from Paris with a dead girl in his car and needs some help. What is its first new show about? Jean (Marc-André Grondin) is a Frenchman living in London operating a crime clean-up business that is going down the tubes after losing a contract with the police. What the heck was G4? That right there is why it needed to be replaced. This is a new(ish) cable channel owned by NBC Universal and this is their first original program.
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