French Cuisine..

I've never really been to France, just zoomed through it on the railway.  So I don't know how they carry on there but I've always believed they're big on food.

Big on sauces, fancy dishes, strange foods (snails?) and so on.

So it's a surprise to me to see in this totally  French espionage thriller - 'The Bureau- - that whenever they eat in their canteen they always seem to eat the same things - either steak and chips (French Fries, to them, I guess) or what looks like maybe crumbed veal (or fish?) and green beans.

Very prosaic.

And the French 'chic' I've always heard about.  The women frequently seem to have fairly ratty hair, uncombed and looking even unwashed, which I don't suppose it really is - so is that their 'chic' - to look scruffy?

going downhill...

 Ah... series 3, episode 6, at around 46 minutes.  All so unconvincing.  Seems amateurish.  Something wrong.....

end of the series, maybe, everyone lost interest? going to other jobs? giving 2ic's a chance?

now they've got the boss and the daesh man standing up face to face talking in a ruin, backs to rows of pillars offering a view to all outsiders and plenty of cover for outsiders to creep up on them - no attempt whatever to find a sheltered position they can talk quietly in and watch all approaches - something  you'd think second nature to such people...

now they've got a virtual realtime warning of danger coming when we've been told there's 13minute delay in their phone watching thing....

yep... it's got ridiculous...  after I thought it was so great....

ah well, you get that....