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Women in Blue(2024)

Also known as La Brigade Bleues

Upcoming · Apple TV

7.2168 eps
S02
CrimeDrama
ON AIR: AUG 12Season 2

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Women in Blue is set in a 1971 Mexico City precinct where four women are recruited into the first female police unit, then quietly shelved as a press distraction while a serial killer keeps working. The institutional bad faith is the engine: they were never meant to investigate anything, and the body count rising around them makes that cynicism increasingly hard to stomach.

The pact the four women make to pursue the killer themselves shifts the show from workplace drama into something with real procedural momentum. Their friendships and friction with each other carry the weight that the institution refuses to, and the back half builds toward a resolution that lands harder than expected, with an ending that earns its surprise.

Best for

1970s police coverup, workplace rivalry and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Drama

Commitment

Season 2 · 8 episodes

Where

Apple TV

Official Premise

In 1971, four women defy convention and join Mexico's first female police force, only to discover it's a publicity stunt to distract the media from a serial killer. As the body count grows, they make a pact to bring the killer to ...

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