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Jackdaws

1 season

A taut, high-stakes wartime mission drama that keeps you on edge as ordinary women are pushed into extraordinary danger.

Created by
Camille Moreau
Genres
Drama, War & politics
Starring
Laetitia Casta, Mathilde Seigner, Lina El Arabi
Overview
Set in May 1944, just days before the D-Day landings, widowed mother Elisabeth "Betty" Clairet is tasked with assembling an unlikely commando of five civilian women to carry out a near-impossible mission: infiltrate an impenetrable château housing a key German communications hub and destroy it before the Normandy landings by the Allies.

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Created by
Camille Moreau
Genres
Drama, War & politics
Starring
Laetitia Casta, Mathilde Seigner, Lina El Arabi
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • survival
  • found family
  • betrayal
  • justice
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, war & politics
Created by
Camille Moreau
Written by
Chloé Marçais, Mathieu Missoffe, Camille Moreau
Starring
Laetitia Casta, Mathilde Seigner, Lina El Arabi, Michaël Youn, Bérangère McNeese, Nelligan, Jean Schatz, Leander Vyvey
Length
1 seasons, 1 episodes
Network
TF1
Country
France, Belgium, United States of America
Languages
French

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