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Alter Ego
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Éric Cantona
Joseph Batista
6 eps
Bruno Sanches
Samy Kaddourian
6 eps
Adèle Galloy
Lyna Rochefort
6 eps
Maxence Danet-Fauvel
Berthier
6 eps
Juliet Lemonnier
Pamela Moreau
6 eps
Céline Groussard
Linda Kaddourian
6 eps
Roby Schinasi
Pierre Lalande
6 eps
Salomé Benamo-Lacene
Jeanne Kaddourian
6 eps
Adam Racouchot
Cristiano Kaddourian
6 eps
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TV DNA
How Alter Ego actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Alter Ego reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Tension.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Joseph Batista, a taciturn yet deeply humanistic police officer, has returned to Marseille after thirty years of a brilliant career in Paris. He has a good reason for coming back: he has just discovered that he has a daughter and a grandson he has never met. Lyna, who has become an investigating magistrate, is determined to make him pay for his absence.
Meanwhile, Samy Kaddourian, a brilliant but disorganized lawyer carrying an enormous mental load as a single father raising three children, defends the very suspects Batista is trying to put behind bars. This hypersensitive, clingy attorney and this police officer who is too proud to show his emotions keep crossing paths on criminal cases, each on opposite sides but both fighting to uphold justice.
As they get to know one another, they argue, clash, and gradually grow fond of each other—until they realize they may have found their perfect counterpart.
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The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Philippe DajouxDirector
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