Netflix Original | The Forest | La forêt | A french thriller circled around a beautiful village.
When a 16 year old school student Jennifer goes missing, Captain Gasper Decker ( Samuel Labarthe ) and his team goes about investigating. All that they have as lead is the phone call received by the ever mysterious french teacher Eva Mendel ( Alexia Barlier ) right before the girls disappearance. The series is entirely in french, but was riveting enough for me to ignore that fact. It comes with the usual share of mystery, lies and thrill. The 6 episode series starts pretty strongly with the first two episodes moving the story along at a brisk pace. All the characters are introduced and some of the prime suspects are introduced and nullified in quick succession. The story takes a turn when the missing child ends up dead and that is followed by two more girls going missing. The story, as the title says centers around a forest in the outskirts of the village where there had been instances of kids gone missing decades ago. The series however loses its pace ...