Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

arthurhome Not since Mel Brooks...Peter Sellers or even Allo Allo have I seen anything as well scripted and directed as good as this show...top of its class....i recommend you give it a look for yourself...brilliant...

lisanebufquin SO funny and well done! Great cast! One of the best I ever seen!

dmariat55 On the surface Au service de la France is a very funny comedy about the French equivalent of the CIA. But after you watch it ten times like I did you realize it is a vicious comedy. It's as if in the war room of the CIA in Jason Bourne the agents cracked jokes and did funny things between having their assets kill people. The point of Jason Bourne and this show is the opposite of what Jack says in A Few Good Men. Jack says you can't take the truth. In other words you sometimes have to do unpleasant things to protect your country. Au service has the characters do bad things in their own self interest in guise of serving France. The exception is the new recruit Andre Merlaux. He can be violent but at the same time altruistic. It seems as though the writers are saying that many times people in high government places despite their rhetoric are no better than the common scoundrel.I would be remiss in not mentioning the love story between Andre and a shop girl Sophie. What is noteworthy is the homage to Godard and his movie A Bout de Soufflé. After Sophie and Andre see it we realize that Jean Seberg and her character Patricia have given Sophie the call. The modern woman. 1960 is an incredible year in France with the nascent feminist movement and the end of colonialistic policy in France. Au Service is covering all of it.

Tyler Durden It's a shame that this excellent production has no review yet on IMDb, so i decided to go first :-)"A very secret service" caught me by surprise. The stage are the early 1960s, relatively short after the end of WW2 and in the middle of the cold war. It's a mix of "The Office" and "Dr. Strangelove".There is plenty of twisted, sarcastic and dark humour (at times very British). They shoot quotable one-liners like machine guns at you. I laughed my *** off many times (hint: the eastern German bathrobe). With all the silliness they managed to create a coherent story line as well as a bunch of characters you really care about. They mostly also use very nicely and somewhat easy to understand french, so it's good for those wanting to learn french. I'm Swiss, so i can relate well to what's going on.Now bring on the second season, or i will get very grumpy!!