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Not as many questions answered in the final episode of chapter one as I would have liked, but definitely left a cliffhanger. Good acting and cinematography, decent storyline development. Abrupt ending.

I enjoyed this episode and have some pretty dramatic tension and that was a pretty nice episode. The end want us to see the season 2 of Lupin. The end let us with a big cliffhanger and it sound good for the next.

Entertaining story , I will look Season 2 of that mini serie. There is no Real Big plot holes sorry haters, police from Paris called the police of Le havre to be at the train station. Are you American stupid enough to believe the only police in France are in Paris ? I got news for you guys Donald Hitler Lovers, We have police in every town.

This is a marvelous series to watch. Superb acting. Amazing plot. Entertaining and fun to watch. As a Lupin fan, I loved it.

Ignore the negative reviews about plot holes. Some people just see the black dot in a white board and keep whining about it. Ignore them too.

Something else from the Guardian's Top TV of 2021 was Netflix's French Drama "Lupin" - specifically Part two, but I hadn't started it at all yet. So, I did. It's never quite as fun again as its first episode for me, but it's a cool, smart series that even if it hadn't ended on a cliffhanger, I would be back for.

Assane Diop (Omar Sy) is a Parisian thief, who uses his wits and charm to evade capture in the style of his hero, Arsene Lupin, the Gentlemen thief of early 1900's literature. His father seemingly took his own life, when Assane was a child, having been convicted of stealing a necklace from Hubert Pellegrini (Herve Pierre) a wealthy industrialist. Decades later, Assane is given a chance at the very same prize but he soon discovers that the Pellegrini's are more dangerous than he believed.

Lots to admire, from the first episode especially. The "Sherlock" comparisons are obvious. A contemporised version of a classic character - the first episode sees him commit the crime and utilises flashbacks to reveal truths and information that we weren't previously made aware of. It never quite matches that level of wit again. Assane remains adept at sleight of hand and with a gift of the gab, but his disguises involving hair and makeup are generally unconvincing and, perhaps most importantly, the plot of the series kicks in pretty firmly, stopping us from getting to know the character a little better via another clever heist.

Which is not to say that I didn't enjoy it, much of which can be laid at the feet of the charismatic Omar Sy, who has flirted with stardom before with roles in "Jurassic World" and in "X-Men: Day's of Futures Past". I breezed through this first five episodes in a few days and will probably crack on with the next five before too much longer. I just perhaps we'd languished in some adventures a little more, before powering on with the main story.

The season ends without things taken care of. If anything, they have gotten worse. Also, the stupidity of actions goes right back to the scriptwriters. I know that sometimes these kinds of shows push the boundaries of reality, but once again, the villain seems to be supernatural. He gets arrested, released, and is back at the beach where Raoul is in a matter of minutes as the rest of the gang go by train and so on and so forth. I would love to like this show, but now it is almost silly in the carelessness of the plot. Will Season Two get us back to some semblance of cause and effect. To say this guy is like Lupin is really not giving much credit to that literary figure.