Acorn TV features the DVD debut of one of the 10 highest-rated dramas in France in 2018 and Acorn TV fan-favorite, BALTHAZAR, Series 1 on April 14, 2020. Renewed for a Series 2, this acclaimed mystery procedural follows the suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley, Messiah, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch) who can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles, Le Secret d’Elise, VA Savoir) to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him--the murder of his wife over a decade ago. Now on a two-disc DVD set ($39.99, Amazon.com), Balthazar previously premiered on Acorn TV in November 2019. Called a “glorious streaming service… an essential must-have” (The Hollywood Reporter), AMC Networks’ Acorn TV is North America’s most popular and largest streaming service featuring high-quality television from Britain and Beyond.
On the job, Balthazar is very confident; his conclusions are often accurate about the victims, their lifestyles and their deaths, drawing from his top-notch skills and the latest technology to help uncover evidence that police missed on the crime scene. As he unearths more about the victims, he speaks to them and they interact in return. He’s openly flirtatious with Bach. Yet he is vulnerable at home where he still mourns his late wife Lise (Pauline Cheviller, Le Secret d’Elise). He draws comfort from intimate conversations with her --whether he’s admiring her aunt’s courgette jam, she is poking fun at him for leaving graphic crime scene photos for his one night stand to accidentally see or watching the Miss France competition show, which was a favorite pastime of theirs. Balthazar is now greatly conflicted over whether the man locked up for Lise’s murder was actually the perpetrator. Thanks to new clues, Balthazar is in hot pursuit to learn the true identity of her killer.
Balthazar premiered on December 6, 2018 in France and is a production of BEAUBOURG STORIES in co-production with France’s TF1 and international distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Balthazar, Series 2 is scheduled to stream on Acorn TV in spring 2020.
Street Date: April 14, 2020
My Thoughts
Balthazar is a drama series set in France. It centers around a forensic pathologist. He has a great reputation and his conclusions are always right on the money. He has his own unique way of communicating with the victims, perhaps because he has suffered a loss of his own. The death of his wife weighs heavily on him, and he throws himself into his work even more. This first season has six exciting episodes.
1- Balthazar and his unconventional methods don't go over well with new inspector Bach. They still have to work together to solve the murders of a prosecutor and his wife.
2- Balthazar struggles with the knowledge that his wife's killer may still be at large. He works on a crime scene where a man's face is torn off.
3- A young women is found frozen in the back of a truck. Balthazar finds evidence connecting her death to another case.
4 -Balthazar helps a woman who he thinks is stabbed, but he soon learns its not her blood. The real victim turns out to be her fiance.
5- A dismembered corpse in discovered by the river, but the parts don't match up, which means there are multiple victims.
6- A woman's body is found at the scene of a car crash, but she died hours before crash and her body was in the trunk.
2- Balthazar struggles with the knowledge that his wife's killer may still be at large. He works on a crime scene where a man's face is torn off.
3- A young women is found frozen in the back of a truck. Balthazar finds evidence connecting her death to another case.
4 -Balthazar helps a woman who he thinks is stabbed, but he soon learns its not her blood. The real victim turns out to be her fiance.
5- A dismembered corpse in discovered by the river, but the parts don't match up, which means there are multiple victims.
6- A woman's body is found at the scene of a car crash, but she died hours before crash and her body was in the trunk.
This is a really awesome series. The forensic people are usually the side characters, so its a different twist to show the series through their eyes for a change. It gives you a chance to understand the science behind crime solving instead of just the detective work. I'm excited to see where things go in the next season. If you want to grab a copy of this awesome DVD set, it is available online at Acorn Media and on Amazon.
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