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‘Monsieur Spade’ casts Clive Owen in a series that’s nearly the stuff dreams are made of

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The latest installment of True Detective gets overshadowed by another six-episode limited series premiering the same night, only this one featuring a detective out of the past, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade. With a hat tip to “The Maltese Falcon,” AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” creates a nicely moody sequel built around the character, and if that’s not quite the stuff dreams are made of, it comes wonderfully close.Although he has dabbled in hard-boiled detective types in the past (“Sin City” comes to mind), and made an excellent Bill Clinton in “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” Clive Owen finds a role here that perfectly suits him as an older, world-weary version of the character most famously played by Humphrey Bogart. This new-old Spade comes to France in the mid-1950s carrying out an errand for Brigid O’Shaughnessy, the larcenous femme fatale whose name will mean something to “Falcon” aficionados.Flash forward to 1963, and Spade is comfortably retired and still living in France, having picked up French (how well is a subject of amusing debate) and a good deal more baggage related to another alluring woman who came into his life.Spade’s reverie, however, gets abruptly shattered by an appalling act of violence, launching the hero into the grudging role of a sleuth again, while sweeping a number of characters – from the gruff local police chief (Denis Ménochet, seen in “Inglourious Basterds”) to Brigid’s now-teenage daughter Teresa (Cara Bossom) – into Spade’s orbit.


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