Another meaty creation in the line of one-word series

BeneCumb

This decade has brought along dozens of catchy crime drama series in French, often with short title, e.g. Les Temoins, Le Chalet, La Mante, La trêve, etc., and often resembling Scandinavian thrillers in their own, pleasant French manner. There is no fancy Paris or big city life, but mostly nature, small villages or townships, "small" people with "big" issues...

La forêt is another fine example, with realistic events, thrill, interesting characters, good performances; perhaps some scenes were excessive and/or over-mystified, but as I did not figure out the wrongdoer and all things were explained daintily, it is definitely a 8/10 series at least, excelling most of related U.S. series. Vis-à-vis many reviewers here, I had nothing against the final episode´s structure, not following the usual path of solutions around the wrongdoer´s capture.

score 8/10

BeneCumb 13 January 2019

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4580843/