Le Bureau Des Légendes (The Bureau) is back for more on Amazon, but the translators have been napping

One of the best shows I’ve seen this year, if not the best, is Canal+/Amazon’s Le Bureau Des Légendes (The Bureau), a hugely impressive spy show that anyone who loves television should watch as soon as they can. Indeed, Le Figaro called it “to this day… the best ever [TV series] made in France”.

It’s a sign of how good it is that despite only acquiring the first season in June, Amazon has decided to make September just a little bit brighter by giving us the second season of the show already, despite The Bureau being in French and subtitled – that suggests impressive ratings.

Indeed, have a look at the second season’s ratings on Amazon and you’ll see that of the 24 ratings its received already, every single one of them is five stars. I’m only three episodes in and although bits of it seem a little less plausible than the first season and there’s far less tradecraft, I’d happily rate it five stars, too. 

Despite that, we can’t let if off from normal protocol when it comes to typos. If you’re going to mock up a web page in English, remember to spell ‘Access’ the English way, not the French.

A typo in the The Bureau

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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