The stories of spies are rather rare on the small screen in Quebec, with the exception of a few intrigues of the genre in the popular daily soap opera District 31. The new series of the mysterious screenwriter François Pagé (After, trapped) and Michel D’Astous fills this gap very effectively, with its mixture of spy suspense and marital thriller, which sometimes makes one think of the excellent The Americans.
It’s that Classified Secret is built around a couple (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Patrick Labbé, impeccable), who work in the upper echelons of Canada’s security services. This one sees his small quiet family life shaken following an attack near the American consulate. This attack, which seemed to target a pacifist political dissident from the (fictional) emirate of Shammar who had been living in Quebec for a long time, will reveal that a mole in the pay of the CIA has infiltrated the security services.
The spouses will be brought to watch and suspect each other, thanks among other things to the efforts of a detestable colleague (Paul Ahmarani). Will their couple suffer or not? The first two episodes that we have seen, which effectively plant the plots and the many secondary characters revolving around the protagonists, do not let us guess the outcome. The credible script (Pagé was a security consultant for a long time, and it seems) and the exciting direction by Stéphan Beaudoin, which has nothing to envy to foreign productions with a better endowed budget, suggest a success that will hook us until end of ten episodes.
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