Online Series Review: ‘Liaison’: Flawed, but Fast-Paced Thriller Pulls You In

TV-MA | 6 episodes | Drama, Thriller | Feb. 24, 2023
It turns out even the French think the French are villainous. There are certainly plenty of secret enemies and hidden turncoats in this French-and-British co-produced series, but the bad guys viewers meet right from the start are all French—and highly placed in the French government and military industrial complex.
It is unclear whether French mercenary Gabriel Delage (Vincent Cassel) is with them or against them. That is one of the many questions his former lover, British Home Office official Allison Rowdy (Eva Green) must answer in creator Virginie Brac’s six-episode “Liaison.”
A series of cyber-attacks have the United Kingdom on edge, which annoys Rowdy’s crusty boss, Richard Banks (Peter Mullin), beyond his usual surliness. They could have been a whole lot worse, but they were all embarrassingly visible and the hack of the rail lines tragically led to the deaths of several school friends of Rowdy’s potential step-daughter, Kim Onwori (Bukky Bakray), which makes it personal for her….

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