The Bureau
Seen it?2015 | 5 seasons | 55 min | Crime, Drama
Sunday Safe BetWhy it’s a Sunday Safe Bet
Solid across the board without standing out anywhere. A safe bet when you want something reliable.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for crime-drama fans. If you loved The Night Manager or Slow Horses, start here.
- The mood
- Dark and gritty.
- The pace
- 5 seasons: a few months of evenings, hour-long episodes, about 46 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- Rated TV-MA: meant for adults.
- It's in French, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesSolid
8.2 out of 10
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerSolid
Ran for 5 seasons and reached a modest audience; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactSolid
About 244K people sought it out in the past year
Season by season
The show overall is a Sunday Safe Bet. Here's how each season stacks up; Season 2 is the high point.
- Season 12015 · 10 episodes · 7.5 out of 10Sunday
Season 22016 · 10 episodes · 7.7 out of 10Saturday- Season 32017 · 10 episodes · 7.5 out of 10Sunday
- Season 42018 · 10 episodes · 7.6 out of 10Sunday
Season 52020 · 10 episodes · 6.7 out of 10Weeknight
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Cast & crew
Created by Éric Rochant
- Mathieu KassovitzGuillaume Debailly
- Sara GiraudeauMarina Loiseau
- Stefan CreponCésar dit « Pacemaker »
- Zineb TrikiNadia El Mansour
- Florence Loiret CailleMarie-Jeanne Duthilleul
- Jonathan ZaccaïRaymond Sisteron
- Oleksiy HorbunovMikhaël Kharlov
- Mathieu AmalricJean-Jacques, dit « JJA »
- Louis GarrelAndrea Tassone dit « Mille Sabords »
- Jules SagotSylvain Ellenstein