{"id":239270,"date":"2025-05-28T18:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=239270"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:40:49","slug":"france-usa-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/france-usa-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; USA 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"627\"><em><strong>by Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"627\">As &#8220;The Agency 2&#8221; is being feverishly prepared\u2014despite Tottenham\u2019s coach, Angelos Postecoglou, saying after winning the Europa League that the best season of any TV series is the third\u2014I believe the time has come to draw a comparison with its \u201cmother\u201d series, &#8220;Le Bureau des L\u00e9gendes<em data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"336\">&#8220;<\/em>. We had written here, long before watching the American remake, that it was the best espionage series we had seen since the dawn of the 21st century. Before that, we simply didn\u2019t watch television. &#8220;The New York Times<em data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"555\">&#8220;<\/em>, in a recent article, ranked it as the third best series of the decade. I was lucky enough to discover it during a trip to France in 2015, and ever since then, like I imagine viewers of &#8220;Sasmos<em data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"751\">&#8220;<\/em> or &#8220;Land of Promise<em data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"772\">&#8220;<\/em> do in Greece, I awaited each new episode with anticipation. It wasn\u2019t easy to watch, as it aired on the satellite channel Canal+, but with a bit of I.T. help, anything is possible. None of us were surprised, I think, when it was announced that George Clooney would be producing the American version. It aired in Greece one week after its U.S. premiere, on Cosmote TV, and here are our observations: Despite the similarities due to the script, an ocean separates the two series. Let\u2019s start with the protagonist. Michael Fassbender took over the role held by Mathieu Kassovitz. No comment. The low-ceilinged offices of the D.G.S.E. (Direction G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Services Ext\u00e9rieurs), the French intelligence agency in Paris, were replaced by a glass CIA tower in London. The psychological depth of the French secret agents gave way to \u201cCaptain America,\u201d in the sense of the hero who saves the world. And yet, in the comparison between spectacle and action versus realistic sensitivity devoid of Hollywood clich\u00e9s, the winner\u2014for the European viewer, at least\u2014is Eric Rochant.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"627\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239265 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121823.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121823-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121823-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121823-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zabounis As &#8220;The Agency 2&#8221; is being feverishly prepared\u2014despite Tottenham\u2019s coach, Angelos Postecoglou, saying after winning the Europa League that the best season of any TV series is the third\u2014I believe the time has come to draw a comparison with its \u201cmother\u201d series, &#8220;Le Bureau des L\u00e9gendes&#8220;. We had written here, long before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":239267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239273,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239270\/revisions\/239273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}