When France is portrayed on the silver screen, we’re more used to seeing the nation’s capital, Paris. Netflix instead takes us to the coastline of Marseilles in crime thriller series Blood Coast. As the Marseilles police team, led by police officer Lyès Benamar, hunts down the people behind the drugs, Interpol agent Alice Vadal gets transferred from Paris to the coastal case, possibly for revenge for her father. It’s a familiar plot, and the crime thriller goes through the motions in a slow, but predictable fashion, alternating between the police team and the organized syndicate behind the foreign drugs flooding the coast. The resulting show feels a tad boring, though it’s thankfully limited to only six episodes.
As a vicious drug dealer tries to overtake Marseille, a rogue police captain and his daredevil team welcome a new recruit with an agenda of her own.
To keep the city of Marseille from plunging into a bloody gang war, police officer Lyès Benamar and his team team up with transferee Interpol agent Alice Vidal to track down a dangerous criminal.
Blood Coast is basically a standard police procedural where police try to take down organized crime syndicates. The plot points are as expected: there’s a bad guy to catch, and a team with different personalities that have to catch said bad guy. While it goes through the standard plot points, Blood Coast goes through them at such a slow pace with multiple muddled subplots and dynamics between the team members. Most of these characters don’t have an intriguing introduction– the only one who does is Interpol officer Alice Vadal, and it’s her story that contains most of the mystery in the series– but the rest of the subplots don’t really feel memorable since there’s not enough moments to connect with each of the team members.
There’s not enough to care about the team except for Alice Vadal, and the action is few and far in between.
