Braquo
Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 9/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 9/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 9/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 9/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 8/10CynicalDeeply distrustful of institutions and human motives.This show: 8/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 8/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Jean-Hugues AngladeJoseph MalerbaKarole RocherNicolas DuvauchelleGeoffroy ThiébautIsabelle Renauld
Written by
Olivier Marchal
Starring
Jean-Hugues AngladeJoseph MalerbaKarole RocherNicolas DuvauchelleGeoffroy ThiébautIsabelle Renauld
Written by
Olivier Marchal
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Braquo Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.8 | |
| S2 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.7 | |
| S3 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.1 | |
| S4 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.5 |
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About
"French cop drama that curdles into tragedy"
Braquo follows a small squad of Paris cops who, after a colleague is driven to suicide by a corrupt investigation, start breaking the law themselves to protect one another and get justice on their own terms. The show is bleak, brutal, and unflinching, tracking their slide from bent procedure into outright criminality. It moves fast and hits hard, favoring visceral violence and moral rot over tidy resolution. What carries it is the cast's raw, exhausted intensity and a sense that no one, including the audience, is safe from consequence.
Watch it for
the unrelenting descent of decent cops into people they despise.
Maybe skip if
you need likable heroes or a story that isn't relentlessly grim.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 12009
7.889186h 14m
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Season 22011
7.658886h 19m
It's the end of the line for rogue cops Caplan, Morlighem, Delgado and Vachewski in this second season of Braquo, the internationally acclaimed, hard-hitting crime thriller. To protect his team, Caplan makes a deal with the authorities. He assumes full responsibility and is sent to prison. Morlighem and Delgado are reassigned with junior positions, while Vachewski is kicked off the force. But he soon finds himself at the center of an undercover operation being run by several different police departments. Escaping from prison, he's on the run from a killer. His former teammates are there to help him out, but this time both cops and criminals are shooting to kill.
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Season 32014
7.842987h 6m
Caplan and his team must end a war between two clans.
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Season 42016
7.738084h 42m
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Jean-Hugues Anglade Eddy Caplan
Joseph Malerba Walter Morlighem
Karole Rocher Roxane Delgado, Roxane
Nicolas Duvauchelle Theo Vachewski
Geoffroy Thiébaut Roland Vogel, Vogel
Isabelle Renauld Michelle Bernardi
Alain Figlarz Serge Lemoine, Lemoine
Joël Lefrançois Fargette
Samuel Le Bihan Gabriel Marceau, Marceau
Valérie Sibilia Hélène Rossi
Crew
Olivier Marchal
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