This is a good crime show. There is a very unreliable timeline, many unreliable characters, and the cops are worked into many red herrings before finding the right path, and that path is cleverly never quite clear until right up to the end. Disparue has a well-thought out story and script, and may be compared to dramas such as Missing, also set in France. It's an honest investigation into people's reactions, their priorities, their embarrassments, their flaws, as well as their strengths and insights. I have no problem giving Disparue an 8, mainly because I enjoyed watching it and it achieved its goal of making me desperate to have the mystery unravel itself by the end. If you have seen a lot of BBC dramas or Nordic crime from the same genre, you may feel, like I did, that the story is a little paint by numbers here, not really displaying anything revolutionary in the way of similar shows. Once again we see a poor family struggle to retain themselves under a most tragic and unwelcome cloud. It must be said, however, that Disparue displays such drama extremely well, and needs to be recommended on that score.
Review of Disparue
