Review of La Forêt des disparus

Wonderful landscape worth two stars

Being half French half German, from Strasbourg, I was very much looking forward to watching this series.

But, beside the fact that French actors playing German characters is just hilarious, the story itself is far too far-fetched to convey any believable thrill. Lots of interesting ideas I guess, and battles worth to fight, but the script, the writing is really -really!- poor, as for much of the productions nowadays.

Here are some questions/remarks

• I don't understand the reasons behind what has become the stereotypical rotten adolescent, always extreme, always angry, always shouting, always impolite when not constantly insulting everyone and anyone over the age of 20. Is incivility synonymous to genius in the little heads of the writers?

• You'd think that someone like a "Juge d'Instruction" wouldn't steal anything in a house being searched "sur commission rogatoire", especially as she is the one insisting the procedure should be respected, but hell, no, why?

• The house is being searched without gloves and no body cameras
• People seem to go back and forth from France to Germany meddling in each others criminal affairs without official papers all the time
• Why doesn't Mme le Juge go for another specialist, ask for a second opinion sooner? It's been a year, and yet, we are supposed to believe that the whole follow-up was done by one single person, a Dr Stein? No neurologist, no post-operative team, no surgeon, no psychotherapy, nothing? No pharmacist either, no revision, no "Médecin traitant"? Are these people so far away from the medical world and the french welfare system?

These small details are legions, and this is what makes it so impossible, and why it is so bad.

Do not recommend.