Expected in January on France 2, the “Vortex” series, which mixes polar, romance and SF, is revealed through an ultra-effective trailer. With on the program an investigation between past and present for Tomer Sisley. And life or death issues.
This will undoubtedly be one of the series events of the first half of 2023 on French television.
France 2 will launch on Monday January 2 at 9:10 p.m. Vortex, its new ultra-ambitious science fiction series carried by Tomer Sisley, who is thus disloyal to TF1 and Balthazar (who will soon return for a fifth and final season).
Created by Camille Couasse and Sarah Farkas from a concept by Franck Thilliez, and directed by Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun (L’école de la vie), Vortex starts in 2025, when the crime scenes are now filmed and reconstructed in reality. virtual in order to be studied in their smallest details.
Captain of the judicial police in Brest, Ludovic Beguin (Tomer Sisley) had the misfortune to lose 27 years ago the love of his life, Mélanie (Camille Claris), who died in what seemed to be an accident. Leaving him alone with their daughter Juliette.
When the body of a woman is discovered in 2025 on Corsen beach, the same beach where Mélanie’s body had been found in July 1998, Ludovic examines the crime scene in the virtual reality room and discovers, the breath cut off, without being able to touch her, Mélanie, alive. A time rift has opened and they can now communicate between 2025 and 1998!
Ludovic then warns Mélanie: she will die in 11 days. The beginning of a tough dilemma for the hero of Vortex because saving Mélanie from certain death also means taking the risk of losing her life in the present. The one he took so long to rebuild with his new wife Parvana (Zineb Triki) and their son Sam.
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Judging by the first images of the series unveiled by France 2, Vortex promises to be an extremely original whodunnit, which goes completely off the beaten track and is somewhere between Minority Report, with its technological innovations that help the police, and Plan B, with the idea that changing the past necessarily influences the present.
Alongside Tomer Sisley, Camille Claris (The Last Life of Simon) and Zineb Triki (The Office of Legends), Eric Pucheu (The Engaged), Sandrine Salyères (Tomorrow belongs to us), Ludovik (The Visitor from the Future), Anaïs Parello (Here it all begins), Juliette Plumecocq-Mech (Fear on the lake), Julien Floreancig (Un Si Grand Soleil) and Evelyne El Garby Klaï (Gone forever) complete the cast of this thriller in six episodes.
Expected from January 2 on France 2, at the rate of two parts per week, Vortex will be available in full on france.tv from December 26.