93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone likes this show.

70 million households streamed it within the first 28 days of release.

Lupin is a French heist TV series. Very entertaining.

17 episodes over 3 parts available on Netflix as I post. MORE are planned.

Omar Sy in the role of Assane Diop is charming.  An over-the-top, funny French version of James Bond.

Diop emulates a  fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise named Arsène Lupin.

Author Maurice Leblanc featured Lupin in 17 novels and 39 novellas.

The story follows professional thief Assane Diop, the only son of an immigrant from Senegal who had come to France to seek a better life for himself and his child.

Assane’s father is framed for the theft of an expensive diamond necklace by his employer, the wealthy and powerful Hubert Pellegrini, and dies in his prison cell, leaving the fourteen-year-old Assane to fend for himself on the streets of Paris.

Twenty-five years later, inspired by a book about gentleman thief Arsène Lupin his father had given him on his birthday, Assane sets out to get revenge on the Pellegrini family …

The hilariously bad voice over and subtitles in English didn’t bother me (for a change). In fact, it almost adds to the silliness of some of the plot lines. 😀

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related – Rolling Stone review – The Good Thief of ‘Lupin’

television’s most charming new antihero

Surprisingly good. 

And much better than the book.

More believable dialogue than most predictable, explosion-filled, cliche Hollywood thriller TV.

78% on Rotten Tomatoes is about right. Worth watching.

Some interesting characters.

FBI Agent Peter Sutherland is thrown into a vast conspiracy about a mole at the highest levels of the United States government.

To save the nation, he plunges into a desperate hunt for the traitor, while protecting former tech CEO Rose Larkin from the people who murdered her aunt and uncle. …

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I like how Peter is a rule follower with a strict moral code — in the midst of all this corruption.

A second story line involves the Vice President’s daughter. 

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I’d say the 2nd season is even better than the first.

I like everything about this TV show.

Everything BUT — for me — Matthew McConaughey is still the Lincoln Lawyer.

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Mickey in the TV adaptation. And he just doesn’t match the character in the book nearly as well as McConaughey.

The Lincoln Lawyer is attorney Mickey Haller, half-brother of Michael Connelly’s mainstay character Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch.

In season 2 he’s rich, famous, and successful. 

My favourite character is Becki Newton as Lorna Crain, Haller’s 2nd wife and office manager.  GREAT LEGS … say some sexist macho assholes. 🙄.

Her fiancé, Angus Sampson as Dennis “Cisco” Wojciechowski is excellent too.

ALSO Neve Campbell as Maggie (McFierce) McPherson.

It was good to see Elliott Gould as David “Legal” Siegel, Mickey’s mentor and a friend of his father.  He’s age-85 now.

10 episodes. All good.  Terrific finish.