Saint-Pierre review – this gentle cop show is like a Canadian Death in Paradise

The chemistry is sweet, the location beautiful and there’s a crime every week that’s not too difficult to wrap up neatly. It’s the traditional dance of the minor cop show If all cop shows, celebrity travelogues and cooking competitions were to disappear overnight, the world of television would risk imploding. They are the load-bearing walls that sustain the whole structure. The sheer volume of these shows means that inevitably, there are tiny, specialised niches within each genre. Take Canadian crime drama Saint-Pierre, for example. Have you ever wondered what a slightly grittier Death in Paradise might look like? If so, you’re in luck. Just to make things even more familiar, Death in Paradise alumna Joséphine Jobert can be found in Saint-Pierre, too, co-starring as deputy chief Geneviève “Arch” Archamboult, a Parisian cop who, for reasons which will eventually become clear, has been transplanted to the tiny north Atlantic French territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. She is joined by another mildly troubled blow-in, Allan Hawco’s Royal Newfoundland Constabulary inspector Donny “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, a detective who has been shunted into obscurity after digging a