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After two seasons of Baptiste, the series draws to a close with an ending that's a surprisingly quiet one, considering this season's mystery has been all about giant terrorist attacks. Once again, the episode opens with a flashback (the damn things never end.) This time we&
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Just when you thought the time jumps were over, Baptiste's penultimate episode opens with a flashback. It's finally time for the one death the show hasn't covered: Laura's. Considering how traumatic her passing was, leaving her brother mute, one might expect a
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Last week's episode of Baptiste closed on the big twist everyone probably saw coming. Not only was Emma's son Alex not dead, but he was also in deep with the right-wing extremists led by political candidate Kamilla Agoston and was one of the snipers murdering helpless
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The good news about Season 2 of Baptiste is that it is far more engaging than Season 1. That's almost entirely due to the guest cast, led by Fiona Shaw. Shaw's Emma Chambers is a complicated woman. She's someone desperate to be loved by
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After a disappointing first season, Baptiste landed feet first with the opener for Season 2, hitting the new season out of the park on the first round with future Dame Fiona Shaw as Tchéky Karyo's latest co-star. This season opened with a mystery that didn't just
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Like many prestige shows currently on TV, Baptiste's second season begins in medias res. Emma Chambers (Fiona Shaw) wakes up and lowers herself into her wheelchair before meeting Toby (Jamie Maclachlan), assisting her with something not entirely above board. What that is, the show will get back to
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The Baptiste season finale opens with Stratton, still in his safehouse with his dead ex-wife and her husband. Their assassin, Nicolai, isn't dead yet, but as Edward points out when he wakes up, he will be if an ambulance isn't called. What does Edward want in
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Baptiste's penultimate episode begins with the captive girls. (Remember them?) During a trip to the bathroom, Cristina grabs a shard of glass out of the bathroom window. It's the beginnings of an audacious plan to escape, but it all comes to naught. She stabs her captor,
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Last week's Baptiste ended with Stratton being taken by Constantine while Baptiste struggled with the discovery Niels is his son. This week's cold open, as usual, starts with none of that. Instead, there's a completely random (and paranoid) individual buying a whole lot of
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At the end of last week's Baptiste, it seemed like both Julien and Celia were in for it, with one trapped in a basement with Stratton and the other about to be a victim of Constantine. Naturally, the cold open leaves both these cliffhangers to wait to neither
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After last week's wild ending which revealed Natalie Rose alive and Edward Stratton with a head in his basement, this week's Baptiste picks right back up at Natalie's houseboat hideout. Stratton isn't her uncle; he's a client, and an obsessive
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Baptiste begins with a cold open in Deal, England, as a beachcombing pensioner arrives home. Apparently, no one told him when a man comes to read the gas meter tossume an assassin, Romanian, in this case, named Constantin (Alec Secăreanu). This killing is rough enough that there's a