Spiral
Spiral Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | |||||
| S2 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.3 | |||||
| S3 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.2 | |
| S4 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.5 | |
| S5 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | |
| S6 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.4 | |
| S7 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.8 | |
| S8 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.6 |
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About
"Crime procedural where nobody's hands stay clean"
Spiral (Engrenages) follows a Paris police squad, an ambitious prosecutor, and a morally slippery defense lawyer as their paths tangle across grim, drawn-out criminal cases. Unlike most cop shows, it tracks a case through arrest, interrogation, prosecution, and trial, showing how messy and compromised each stage really is. The tone is bleak, procedural, and unglamorous, with corruption and bureaucracy grinding down every character's good intentions. It rewards patience: cases unfold over many episodes, dialogue is dense, and nobody stays clean. It's less about thrills than about watching a broken system chew people up.
the unflinching look at how police, prosecutors, and defense lawyers all compromise themselves.
you want tidy resolutions or fast-paced episodic cases rather than grinding, morally murky arcs.
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