Guilty as Charged
Season 1
Complaint is a detective series of 52-minute episodes, centered around a police station in a working-class suburb of a provincial French city (the St. Herblain area of Nantes, to be exact), where detached houses with kitchen gardens rub shoulders with tower blocks. There's no mafia or organized crime, just petty lawbreaking, but it keeps our cops busy. Fights that get out of hand, conjugal disputes, quarrels between neighbors, family tiffs, pick-pocketing, pilfering from building sites, minor trafficking and illegal laborers. And plenty of bodily harm, from the trivial to the extremely grievous and, at times, even fatal. Against this backdrop of everyday lawlessness, the series paints a picture of people's lives when they slip out of control, veering into the comic, the tragic or the absurd.
Where to Watch Season 1
8 Episodes
- Card WithheldE1
Card WithheldIn this time of economic and financial crisis, times are tough for everyone. Precariousness pushes some people to seek solutions that they sometimes think they find illegally. As a result, business is increasing in the police station in the suburbs of Nantes in which Commander Kreusky works, at the head of a team of ten people. Hiding her skin-deep sensitivity under a disillusioned appearance, she tries to keep the ship afloat. She has to navigate with discernment between the theft of vegetables in a garden, the pick-pocketing of a prostitute and the assault of a granny by two teenagers. - Christmas SpiritE5
Christmas SpiritIt's Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree is in the cafeteria, everything's fine. Except that an ordinary man decides to burglarize a small jewellery store. He takes the saler as a hostage. A school teacher is worried about her son. She accuses her sister of locking him up. - Slide SlippingE6
Slide SlippingA flagrante delicto ordered by the Chief officer goes wrong. Lieutenant Karine shoots. Too hastily. The whole story started because of Pascal, the unlucky guy who opened a French Fries House near the police station. Hold up by the cops, hold up by the Cité, he is about to commit suicide. - The Final StrawE7
The Final StrawTeenagers don't always realize the impact that stupid things they think are harmless can have. At 14, stealing a few croissants from a bakery doesn't seem like a big deal. For the trader, there is no real cause for alarm. What could the police do about it? They can't just wait for the kids to come. Until the bakery is ransacked and the baker goes mad.
