Just because you name your show and characters from a series of wonderful novels and short stories, it doesn't make it a reasonable representation of its namesake, and this show doesn't. It's more Mod Squad meets 21 Jump Street than Maigret. The lead, Benjamin Wainwright, is too young, too handsome to be Maigret. Reimagining Maigret and crew as a group of 30 something, gender and race diverse individuals is fine, just don't call it, "Maigret". If you want to see a more accurate and better acted version watch Michael Gambon's rendition. The only thing these two have in common, is they were both filmed in, of all places, Hungary. I guess Paris isn't scenic enough for English shows to be shot in.

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