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’
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