The broadcast of season 4 of “Criminal Tropics” continues this evening on France 2 with a new investigation entitled “Cursed Fig”. A title that is not chosen at random, like those of all the other episodes of the series.
Still just as popular with viewers, the Criminal Tropics series, carried by Sonia Rolland and Béatrice de la Boulaye, continues this Friday June 2 from 9:10 p.m. on France 2 with the broadcast of a new unreleased episode of season 4.
Entitled “Cursed Fig”, this new investigation begins with the discovery of the lifeless body of a man on a circuit of “Dark Tourism” (tourism on the scene of crimes), who was murdered according to the modus operandi of a serial killer, the Reaper, who, after raging some twenty years ago in Martinique, had disappeared without ever having been identified.
Only, the victim’s last post on his blog claims that he had just discovered the identity of the Reaper, who seems to be back and having been woken up by this fashionable morbid tourism. The beginning of an investigation that will come to awaken old memories for Commissioner Etcheverry (Stéphan Wojtowicz), Aurélien (Julien Beramis) and Crivelli (who must juggle in parallel with the arrival in his life of a teenager).
But by the way, why is this episode of Criminal Tropics called “Cursed Fig Tree”? And what about the other episodes of the series, which are titled “Ravine Touza”, “Le Lamentin”, “La baie des Anglais”, “Les Anses d’Arlet” or even “Canal Cocotte”?
Martinique at the heart of the series… right down to its episode titles
In fact, each episode of the France 2 detective series refers to a town, a district or an emblematic place on the island of Martinique, where the action takes place and where the adventures of Melissa Sainte-Rose and Gaelle Crivelli.
“Martinique is actually one of the characters. Each episode is titled with the name of a place or a town on the island. We really introduce you to Martinique. It’s not just a setting”confided to us last year Béatrice de la Boulaye in an interview.
“It’s a series that deconstructs all the preconceptions, all the clichés. We were afraid at the start that it wouldn’t pass with the Caribbean community, because we talk about their island, we invite ourselves to their homes, but in the end this are the first to support us”continued his playmate Sonia Rolland about the importance of the representation of the island of Martinique in Criminal Tropics.
“In season 4, we have a lot less heavenly settings, we go more inland. We invited ourselves into this kind of postcard that is Martinique and we discover this island and its mysteries over the seasons”.
For the most impatient, the entirety of season 4 of Criminal Tropics is already available on france.tv.