Indeed , Missoffe ’ s work offers little hope of change or redemption for either Villefranche or the larger world it represents . It is this hopelessness that provides another foundation for the almost tangible dread that steadily builds through the series ’ first season . Finally , it is a dread that the viewer experiences vicariously through Laurene ’ s confrontations with an evil that most effectively manifests itself in the corpses of murder and suicide victims , each graphically rendered according to an aesthetic that combines the grotesque with the abject , and that emphasizes the absence of God . In short , what series creator Matthieu Missoffe offers the viewer is a Gothicized , grotesque and even dreadful depiction of a fictional French village that , as a contemporary version of Dante ’ s Inferno , reflects to the point of exaggeration the fears and anxieties created by several social evils that are afflicting , and may continue to afflict , Western society .
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