Engrenages / Spiral: Season 5 (2014)

Our family is back: Laure (Caroline Proust), Gilou (Thierry Godard, who steals the acting honours), Tintin (Fred Bianconi) and sympathetic Juge Roban (the quite wonderful Philippe Duclos), aided and abetted by lawyers Pierre Clément and Audrey Fleurot and shifty boss Nicolas Briançon.

It takes us only three evenings to polish off 10-hour series. The usual political machinations, a nasty gang of girls, and plenty of opportunities to see Laure's shifting perception of motherhood. It's also all about bending the law at almost every opportunity.

I have a feeling the car that was due to be scrapped, which proved evidence of the police's complicity in a hit and run, is the one Gilou finds in the police garage - if so it's a lovely touch.

This is the season that won the International Emmy in November 2015. In collecting the award, exec producer Anne Landois and Caroline Proust acknowledged the great work of the police and the Charlie Hebdo victims, and were proud to be representing the detectives of Paris.