User Reviews

I enjoyed Killer by the Lake, but couldn't help wondering if there are any vacancies in the French police force. They obviously pay enormously well, as the husband and wife couple Lise and Clovis live in a really big house, with immaculate new furniture and fittings. And they have a pretty good new-ish car too. Lise's mum is put in a very luxe looking old people's home which can't have been cheap - esp as we're told the mum's house burned down in the previous series. So not a lot of family money, and who's paying the care home bills?

Odd too that Clovis and Lise's house is so immaculate - no clutter or junk anywhere - I didn't spot a newspaper or a book or any clothes dumped on the sofa. All the more remarkable considering they have an 8 moth old baby - in my experience those family members generate a large amount of stuff.

I'm also struck by the fact that no one puts a password on any of their kit - laptop, mobile, all open and turned on all the time so that when a copper sneaks in and opens a laptop it instantly displays what he's looking for. You have only to pick up a mobile to see what chats the owner has been engaged in. That helps the pace of the drama no end.

Some odd decisions are made - the wife of the bad guy confronts him alone in the house to ask about the 5 murdered girls - not wise, I fear. And then towards the end the lady cop also goes alone to confront him. Not wise either.

But enough carping - it moves on fast, lots of action, and a strong ending. We're left to surmise what happens to the perp and his two little girls as their car leaves the road on an alpine pass.

Like the first series it's a good watch until the last two episodes when the plot becomes rather incredible with too many twists. Overall it's ok but I do think they could have come up with a more plausible ending. It's also rather disappointing that the lead character, Lise, is changed to a different actress in the second series which makes continuity rather a problem.

Not a disaster though and if you like French films as much as I do you'll put up with its idiosyncrasies !

Harmless serendipity for the sofa-set... who enjoy solving multidimensional murder-mysteries after a full day and a warm meal. The only pillow-bump here, is the motive.

Either have all the 'face-coverings' be identical, or don't bother having 'face-coverings' at all. None of the suspects' personalities matched-up to the death-masque gimmick and the fetish meant less and less as the plot 4-wheeled on.

I had a minor problem about the obsession with hacking and the impression that everybody knew everyone's password. Other than that, the close-knit village-setting avoided being claustrophobic and the acting was spectacular.

Changing 90% of the cast isn't clever, new Lise is too smiley, also Clovis house is different, I'm not happy the changes.

This was 90% soap opera 10% murder mystery. It could have been called "Killer and Miserable Stories by the Lake". After 5 murders the police were no closer to catching him, in fact they consoled him after he killed his wife. With the investigation stalled through lack of clues, the majority of time was spent elsewhere, the detective's mother, her husband's ex partner and the death of his son, his possible infidelity, the killers wife's ex husband stalking her, the couple at the café and the wholly unnecessary introduction of the outside detective. The cut and paste hard ass woman who got it all wrong and managed to get captured by the killer which still got matters no nearer a conclusion. So the whole investigation was backed into a corner and resolved not by good police work but a chance conversation with a counsellor who broke client confidentiality. Given his lengthy use of computers and the expertise available in the field the killer should have been apprehended that way. But this would have meant a quicker resolution and no time for all the other extraneous issues.