Talk:Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime

Accuracy and cast

Is it accurate to say that this is a courtroom drama? None of the action takes place in a courtroom. Similarly, is it correct to say the cast is 'led by Clémence Poésy'? 82.0.13.14 (talk) 05:56, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• I fully concur with the above - the article's still developing (it's only 2 weeks old) but its "Premise" section is just one sentence cite-linked to an Economic Times article titled "Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime: All you may want to know about crime thriller". The Premise sentence ("A court case takes place for a man accused of being a serial rapist over three decades in northern France.") is hopelessly inaccurate - although a 5-minute court scene does occur at the very end of 6 hours' viewing - and is not supported in the Economic Times article at all. The ET article instead states "Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime" is set in Northern France during the late 1980s. Women were being assaulted along a road by the Sambre river. The attacks occur early in the mornings and follow a similar pattern. The justice system struggles to keep up with the increasing number of cases. It takes 30 years to catch the man responsible, who committed at least 54 rapes or assaults. The series highlights the impact of these crimes, which continued to resonate into the #MeToo era. That's far more accurate, but even the ET's summary has errors - for example, it's roads (not one road) near the Sambre on both sides of the French/Belgian border during a 30-year span from 1988-2018 (not N.France in the late 1980s), and the justice system doesn't just "struggle to keep up with the increasing number of cases". A Guardian article on 31 August summarised the justice system's involvement best, in praising the series for "spotlighting the institutional failings and ingrained cultural misogyny that left the rapist at large for so long". Also the ET article describes the sexual assaults as just "assaults", twice! Even the wiki article downplays (inadvertantly) the sexual nature of the crimes, using the word "rapist" only once, "sexual crimes" only once (in a quote in the Reception section) and avoiding the word "assault(s)" altogether. Note also there's not even a wikilink to the River Sambre (essential!). Plus the cast is led by Aliz Poisson and Jonathan Turnbull (being in all six episodes), not Clémence Poésy (episode 4 only), and the Production section's sentence about how " Episodes of the series are told from [six] differing points of view" should be moved to the earlier Premise section. The article can also be improved by picking up extra info from the French version of the Wikipedia article. So there's much work needed, to do proper article justice to this great French series. Pete Hobbs (talk) 16:43, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your posting. I've totally agreed your comments and ended up describing a dozen corrections and improvements needed for the article, some of which I'll try to tackle immediately Pete Hobbs (talk) 16:49, 15 September 2024 (UTC)