UK TV

Season finale: Engrenages (Spiral) 2×8

Engrenages (season 2)

In the UK: Sunday 1st November 2009, 10pm, BBC4. Available on the iPlayer

Well, it’s over now. Time for a collective snivel by viewers of quality TV in Britain. Please, Sir, can we have some more? Etc, etc.

Let’s face facts, season two of Spiral aka Engrenages has just finished on BBC4. So let’s look over the final episode and the season as a whole, because until season three pops along, this is all we’re getting.

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UK TV

Review: Engrenages (Spiral) 2×6

Spiral 2x6

In the UK: Sunday 18th October, 10.15pm, BBC4. Available on the iPlayer

Tension mounts on Engrenages as the police close in on Aziz, we discover that French domestic violence laws need some work, and that France’s witness protection programme needs even more work (because it doesn’t have one).

Not that you’d be getting all that tension necessarily from the subtitles – which need work, too. Spoilers and more after the break.

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