Candice Renoir

Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

Candice Renoir (2013-2022) is a French national-television police procedural comedy created by Solen Roy-Pagenault, Robin Barataud and Brigitte Peskine for France 2. Cécile Bois plays Candice, a single mother and police officer who returns from a ten-year posting in Singapore to a unit in a port town in the south of France. Her colleagues resist her, and her cynical superior Antoine Dumas (Raphaël Lenglet) makes her job harder, yet she turns her supposed rustiness into strength. Her engine is quiet ingenuity: she reads a murder from a window-cleaning product's chemistry or the cooking time of kebabs, and she tracks suspects through a busy daily routine of family, friends and small-town friction. Each episode is a self-contained case, and the series runs ten seasons of roughly ten episodes each, with the cast including Chrystelle Da Silva (Gaya Verneuil) and Valentine Atger (Yeelem Jappain). The tone is breezy, warm and gently comic, with an unassuming heroine whose underestimated competence wins over colleagues and viewers alike. Fans of Death in Paradise, Murder, She Wrote and Hercule Poirot will find a similar comfort in a clever outsider solving crimes with humility and wit.

Audiences rate the series positively, with a steady, well-liked run of case-of-the-week mysteries led by a sharp, unassuming detective.

• Death in Paradiselight female detective procedural with a sharp outsider heroine and case-of-the-week format
• Mon Petit Doigt m'a ditFrench cozy crime series with a warm, witty tone and provincial setting
• Murder, She Wrotefemale detective who solves cases through practical common sense, comic humility and observation
• Hercule Poirotbreezy case-of-the-week police procedural with an accessible, comforting tone

Created by

Solen Roy-Pagenault, Robin Barataud, Brigitte Peskine

Release Date

2013-04-19

Episode runtime

50 min

Rating

7.6 / 10 (70)

What is Candice Renoir about?

A rusty but sharp-eyed police officer returns from Singapore to a southern French port town and cracks murders through everyday common sense.

What is Candice Renoir like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Candice Renoir as measured, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as simple.

Is Candice Renoir violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Candice Renoir as mild.

What did critics think of Candice Renoir?

Audiences rate the series positively, with a steady, well-liked run of case-of-the-week mysteries led by a sharp, unassuming detective.

Which shows are like Candice Renoir?

Shows with a similar feel include Death in Paradise, Mon Petit Doigt m'a dit, Murder, She Wrote, and Hercule Poirot.

How long is Candice Renoir?

Candice Renoir: 10 seasons, 94 episodes.

Is Candice Renoir still running?

No, Candice Renoir was canceled.

Where can I watch Candice Renoir?

In United States, Candice Renoir streams on AcornTV Amazon Channel, Acorn TV Apple TV channel, Acorn TV, Spectrum On Demand.