binged watched season 1-3 of cardinal this weekend
i love a dark troubled cop show
very well done
7/10
well worth the time
only 6 episodes each season
Glad you have liked the series. Always meant to get around to it. Very well-received in Canada on the CTV network. Looks like Hulu carries it in the U.S. ...
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Cardinal is a
Canadian crime drama television series, which was first broadcast on January 25, 2017, on
CTV (in English) and
Super Écran (in French).
[1][2][3] The series adapts the novels of crime writer
Giles Blunt, focusing on police detective John Cardinal (
Billy Campbell) and his partner Lise Delorme (
Karine Vanasse), who investigate crimes in the fictional city of Algonquin Bay.
[3]
Across six episodes, the first season adapts the novel
Forty Words for Sorrow,
[4] which focuses on the investigation of the murder of a young girl.
[1] On February 28, 2017, CTV renewed
Cardinal for a second and third season, each containing six episodes.
[5] The second season adapts Blunt's third Cardinal novel,
Blackfly Season, while the third adapted the novels
By the Time You Read This and
Crime Machine, the fourth and fifth novels in the series.
[5] Episodes from the second season premiered a day in advance of their television broadcast on on-demand service Crave TV.
[6]
Filming on the third season completed in July 2018,
[7] and the season began airing on January 24, 2019.
[8] CTV announced that the programme had also been renewed for a fourth season, which will be its last. Internationally, the series is broadcast on
BBC Four in the
United Kingdom,
C More in
Scandinavia,
Calle 13 in
Spain,
Hulu in the
United States,
SBS in
Australia,
Magenta TV in
Germany,
Canvas in
Belgium and Channel 11 in
Israel.
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