With 76 million households having watched its adventures at the start of the year,
Lupine: in the shadow of Arsene
has become Netflix's most-watched international series and the platform's first original French creation to break into the top 10 subscribers. Americans.
Will the soap opera do as well this Friday with its five unpublished episodes?
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This immense success has benefited, the cynics would point out, the appetite of subscribers confined to the four corners of the world for the beautiful postcard views of Paris, all as cliché as the comedy
Emily in Paris
, and a vigilante hero crippled by good feelings.
Its magnitude surprised French critics, less rave than their English-speaking colleagues.
If
Le Monde
hailed "
an Omar Sy who dusted off Arsène Lupine
" in this modern transposition of the adventures of Maurice Leblanc's hero,
Le Point
denounced a
"missed Arsène"
,
Le Figaro
"A rabbit posed to Lupine"
.
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In the January episodes, Omar Sy was transformed into Assane Diop.
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