The Charles: permission to board (critical)

The French Navy opens the doors of its aircraft carrier through a fascinating military thriller that does not lack ambition.

French creation is taking off, and that suits it well.

The French Navy opens its doors to fiction with Le Charles, a major military series co-produced for Prime Video (released October 23), and M6 (which will broadcast it unencrypted in a few weeks). A solid production which presents itself as a cross between Top Gun, a flagship work on the world of fighter pilots, and Vigil, the British series which sent a Scotland Yard investigator into the bowels of a nuclear submarine to solve a murder embarrassing for the Royal Navy.

Same principle here: a young officer is killed in the passageways of the Charles de Gaulle, then in the middle of a mission near the Suez Canal. No question of returning to port. An investigator from the Maritime Gendarmerie is sent on board, as provided for in the regulations. Despite the cold reception from the military under pressure, he will try to solve the crime while the aircraft carrier is placed on alert, responsible for showing France’s muscles in this region close to Yemen that looks like a powder keg…..