Machine

Fred Grivois's Machine launched on Arte in March 2024, six episodes long, and arrived on Canal+ International in the same window. Grivois, a French writer-director with a background in television action work, created the series with Thomas Bourguignon, who had also developed Crimes parfaits for France 2.

Margot Bancilhon leads the cast as the central protagonist, with JoeyStarr (the rapper of NTM and one of France's most recognisable performers) as her former mentor, and Pierre Lottin, Sofia Lesaffre and Mickaël Lumière in supporting roles. Romain Carcanade's cinematography moves between the industrial look of the factory floor and the fight sequences, whose choreography has been a signature of Grivois's work since his earlier features Les Hommes du feu (2017) and La Résistance de l'air (2015).

The series was produced by EuropaCorp Television, the long-running TV arm of Luc Besson's production company before the company disposed of it, and Netflix acquired it for international distribution outside France. French critics counted it among the strongest French scripted series of 2024, alongside the prestige output Canal+ built in the wake of Le Bureau des légendes and the public-broadcast wave around HPI and Astrid.