The Living Room Bijou: “Balthazar”: The Talking Dead

Thomas Burchfield
5 min readMar 5, 2021

An entertaining, sometimes hilarious, French police procedural featuring an eccentric, egotistical forensic medical examiner, a humorless cop, and chatty murder victims. What more could you want?

Balthazar: For some, the scenery will be fabulous

If you ask me, there’s so many crime shows streaming right now that it constitutes a crime all its own.

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Thomas Burchfield

Essayist, film critic, humorist, and novelist. The author of 1920s noir gangster novel , BUTCHERTOWN, available at Amazon and other booksellers.