Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Lynne A Phillips My wife and I really liked the series for a while, but it went down hill in the second half of the season. The lead detective's behavior became so unstable and unprofessional that it wouldn't have been tolerated. Plus, the ending was rushed and not very believable. We would have given it an 8.0, but dropped it to a 7.0 as the season drew to an end.

Bene Cumb Being a fan of Nordic and UK crime dramas, I try, from time to time, to widen my horizons and watch works with similar approach coming from other countries. A couple of times I have also come across Belgian related series and liked them rather lot.True, they have all been Flemish ones. La trêve is the first one made in Wallonia, thus the basic language in French and the venues are so different from cities like Antwerp or Ghent... As I realised soon that the makers have liked Nordic Noir, I began to share the common feelings very soon, regardless of unknown performers and unvisited areas. The characters seemed realistic, I did not figure out the wrongdoer, the twists were there and not over-sophisticated; it is evident that a small community has its own secrets as well. Well, the pace was not even as the last episodes started to sum up the events perhaps too hastily, after rather slow progression before, and the parallel psychiatrist interview revealed some moments too soon. Nevertheless, La trêve is a thrilling series, unless you like constant chases and cops having cute appearance and fancy cars...

micke-bystrom I love well told TV-series with some depth, shock or excitement, but this shallow depiction of the citizens of Heiderfeld doesn't move me one bit nor entice me to finish this one off.Yoann Blanc plays the most interesting character (Peeters), but after three episodes I had to give up also him. Everyone else including his daughter Camille, played by Sophie Breyer, are just too boring. I mean boring in the wrong way and I have no problem with slow pacing or anything like that, but I want to be able care at all. As a viewer you just don't care about these people. I don't need to watch something I don't care to learn anything about.Overall the quality of acting is lower than expected, which I suspect stems from the director Matthieu Donck rather than a bad script necessarily. I could see this story unfolding in an interesting way that would have kept my interest. I'm dropping this one. Life's too short and there are so many more interesting stories.

Paul Creeden I will begin by saying I was enthralled with this Belgian mystery series on Netflix. And I watch a lot of them. Yoann Blanc as Peeters rivals any of the modern detectives in his interpretation of the functional mental illness of a sincere crusader. He is the definition of quixotic. He tilts at every possible windmill in his way. It is both painful to watch and also engrossing.The small rural town in Belgium is no Miss Marple village. It is filled with demons and their hapless accomplices. This darkness amplifies the frustration and suspense. Guillaume Kerbush as Drummer plays a truly clueless Dr. Watson, who successfully takes his character from vacuous to potentially sinister. This was one of the twists I enjoyed most.Peeter's daughter Camille, played by Sophie Breyer, is a broody lesbian who neutralizes the teenage aspect of the story. Her reactions to her peers are well played and subtle. The supportive cast is evenly talented. I have to mention Alexis Julemont as Timotee, the mad Swede. He added a surreal element to the story which helps to set it apart. I would watch another season, despite some dissatisfaction with the ending of this season. The ending seemed a bit too artsy-French for a hard detective story. Perhaps it was meant as a teaser for a second season.