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* RuralGangsters: "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" involves Chief Inspector Maigret leaving his familiar Paris, to help investigate a murder in Arpajon, a rural farming district in North Paris. Whilst seeming a peaceful and unassuming community, the Parisian police's investigations quickly uncover the area to be [[TownWithADarkSecret a hotbed for crime]], being not just the site of an illegal fight club but also the centre of [[spoiler: widespread smuggling ring that transports and fences stolen goods and jewellery, with the local [[DirtyCop police all being corrupt]] and their head [[EvilFormerFriend Inspector Grandjean]] being one of the ringleaders]].
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* IncestSubtext: Carl Andersen in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" is extremely possessive of his sister, hiding her away from the world [[spoiler:and their father]] to "protect" her. [[spoiler:Justified in that she is not his sister, but his wife.]]
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* ForWantOfANail: The murderers in "Maigret's Dead Man" would have had an easier time getting away if it hadn't been for their lover going into labour just as the police were raiding the building.
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* ForWantOfANail: The murderers in "Maigret's Dead Man" would have had an easier time getting away if it hadn't been for their lover going into labour just as the police were raiding the building. Even further, if they hadn't dropped their railway ticket on the floor of the horseracing grandstands, hoping it would blend in with discarded betting slips that the titular "dead man" sifted through hoping for a winner, Maigret likely wouldn't have caught up with them.
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* ForWantOfANail: The murderers in "Maigret's Dead Man" would have had an easier time getting away if it hadn't been for his lover going into labour just as the police were raiding the building.
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* TranquilFury: Due to his stoicism, Maigret never shouts or truly displays how angry he is. However when he’s confronting a bunch of especially vicious thieves and murders in “Maigret’s Dead Man” he’s still clearly utter furious.
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* TranquilFury: Due to his stoicism, Maigret never shouts or truly displays how angry he is. However when he’s he is confronting a bunch of especially vicious thieves and murders murderers in “Maigret’s Dead Man” he’s Man”, he is still clearly utter furious.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Mrs. Maigret is '''''not''''' thrilled with her husband's attempt to flush the killer out in "Maigret Sets a Trap" - and doesn't hesitate to show it.
* WorkingTheSameCase: The investigation in "Maigret's Dead Man" ultimately becomes this.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Mrs. Maigret is '''''not''''' thrilled with her husband's attempt to flush the killer out in "Maigret Sets a Trap" - and doesn't hesitate to show it.
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". While a dangerous serial killer responsible for the murder of six women, he’s been completely dominated his entire life by either his mother or his wife, both of which still treat him like a child, all his attempts to expand himself have failed. As Maigret outright states he’s nothing more than a failure and he knows it.]]
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". While a dangerous serial killer responsible for the murder of six women, he’s he has been completely dominated his entire life by either his mother or his wife, both of which still treat him like a child, all child. All his attempts to expand himself have failed. As Maigret outright states he’s states, Marcel is nothing more than a failure and he knows it.]]
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Czech translator (implied to be embassy personnel) is a downplayed example, brought in to translate for inspectors Maigret and Colombani in "Maigret's Dead Man" as they try to interrogate a female accomplice of the chief suspect to the Picardie farm murder-robberies. He tries to decline translating further, stating he does not want to infringe on human dignities--especially as said accomplice had just given birth. Colombani shuts him up by showing him the photos of the grisly aftermaths of the farm murders.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Czech translator (implied to be embassy personnel) is a downplayed example, brought in to translate for inspectors Maigret and Colombani in "Maigret's Dead Man" as they try to interrogate a female accomplice of the chief suspect to the Picardie farm murder-robberies. He tries to decline translating further, stating that he does not want to infringe on human dignities--especially as said accomplice had just given birth. Colombani shuts him up by showing him the photos of the grisly aftermaths of the farm murders.
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* PetTheDog: Maigret has flowers from a released patient put in Maria's hospital room in "Maigret's Dead Man", even though she is about to be tried for murder, because she is still a woman who has just had a baby.
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* PetTheDog: Maigret has flowers from a released patient put in Maria's hospital room in "Maigret's Dead Man", even though she is about to be tried for murder, because murder. Because, in his view, she is still a woman who has just had a baby.
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* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". Having been treated like a child his entire life, and failed at everything he ever tried to accomplish, drove him to insanity. During his break down in the climax, all he can do is rant over and over again like a six year old that he hates his mother and his wife.]]
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* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". Having been treated like a child his entire life, and having failed at everything he ever tried to accomplish, drove him to insanity. During his break down in the climax, all he can do is rant over and over again like a six year old that he hates his mother and his wife.]]
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* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Inspector Grandjean, the main antagonist of "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", is an old friend of Maigret's, having gone to the academy together. Maigret is naturally horrified to discover this.]]
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* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Inspector Grandjean, the main antagonist of "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", is an old friend of Maigret's, having gone to Maigret's. They attended the academy together. Maigret is naturally horrified to discover this.his friend's corruption.]]
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Maigret is rarely seen without a pipe in his hand or his mouth, in contrast to other characters cigarette smoking. If he's not smoking it, he's fiddling with it, and keeps a rack full of pipes on his office desk and at home.
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Maigret is rarely seen without a pipe in his hand or his mouth, in contrast to other characters cigarette smoking. If he's he is not smoking it, he's he is fiddling with it, and keeps a rack full of pipes on his office desk and at home.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: This series was commissioned partly out of the hope that it would become the ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' of a new generation.
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For British television, ITV had previously adapted the novels in the 1990s, also titled ''Maigret'', starring Creator/MichaelGambon. There had also been a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] version starring Rupert Davies in the early 1960s.
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''Maigret'' is a 2016 Creator/{{ITV}} drama series that is the latest and an adaptation of Creator/GeorgesSimenon's books about the French detective [[Literature/{{Maigret}} Jules Maigret]]. It stars Creator/RowanAtkinson as the titular detective. Two episodes aired in the first season and a further two in the second..
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''Maigret'' is a 2016 Creator/{{ITV}} drama series that is the latest adaptation of Creator/GeorgesSimenon's books about the French detective [[Literature/{{Maigret}} Jules Maigret]]. It stars Creator/RowanAtkinson as the titular detective. Two episodes aired in the first season and a further two in the second..
Set in 1950's UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, the show centers on Chief Inspector Jules Maigret's attempts to keep his city safe and to lock up dangerous criminals.
ITV had previously adapted the novels in the 1990's, also titled ''Maigret'', starring Creator/MichaelGambon. There had been a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] version starring Rupert Davies in the early 1960's.
Despite the success of the series, in early 2018 ITV released a statement saying that for the foreseeable future there would no more episodes commissioned due to Atkinson's busy schedule with other projects.
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!!''Maigret'' provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyGay: The flop house landlord in "Maigret's Dead Man" seems to be this.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Andersens in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" flee to Paris on a train operating to the Gare d'Orsay; however, the station closed to long-distance trains in 1939, long before the postwar setting of the episode (but not the novel, which was published in 1931).
* AutopsySnackTime: The coroner of "Maigret's Dead Man" is seen smoking even while working with the titular "dead man". The forensics specialist even asks him if he really needs to take a smoke while cutting bodies apart, and the coroner replies that it helps mask the odors.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:"Else Andersen"]] in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" is this, seemingly a troubled young woman, but secretly [[spoiler:the mastermind of a gang smuggling diamonds and stolen goods]].
* BritishBrevity: Each of the Atkinson series are comprised of two television films that are released months apart during holidays.
* DaChief: Rather surprisingly for a 1950s' piece, Maigret bumps up against his superior, the Investigating Magistrate, quite often.
* ConsummateProfessional: As always, Maigret's method of solving crimes is to simply and carefully go through every single detail, and see which parts fit together and which parts don't. His dedication has occasionally put strains upon his marriage, but it still serves him well in the end.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Isaac Goldberg, victim in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", is a Holocaust survivor.
* DeadpanSnarker: Creator/RowanAtkinson playing against type? Then this is a ''given.''
* DeathOfAChild: Maigret makes a reference to a girl who "would be 24 now" in "Maigret Sets A Trap", seemingly referring to a child of his and his wife who did not survive to adulthood.
* DirtyCop: The Arpajon police in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" is crooked, looking the other way over a garage that operates a secret fight club [[spoiler:and a smuggling ring]].
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Maigret is rarely seen without a pipe in his hand or his mouth, in contrast to other characters cigarette smoking. If he's not smoking it, he's fiddling with it, and keeps a rack full of pipes on his office desk and at home.
* EverybodySmokes: The series is set in 1950s Paris. ''Everyone'' is puffing away.
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Inspector Grandjean, the main antagonist of "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", is an old friend of Maigret's, having gone to the academy together. Maigret is naturally horrified to discover this.]]
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Inspector Grandjean in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" gives this impression, being inspector in Arpajon, a rural commune north of Paris.
* ForgetsToEat: Maigret has a habit of leaving meals uneaten when engrossed with his job, to his wife's exasperation.
* ForWantOfANail: The murderers in "Maigret's Dead Man" would have had an easier time getting away if it hadn't been for his lover going into labour just as the police were raiding the building.
* TheFundamentalist: Carl Andersen in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" has shades of this, being a regular Bible reader with a crucifix on the wall (granted, not an uncommon feature of French homes). He also spent time in Antwerp preaching on a streetcorner and trying to save prostitutes, [[spoiler:including one he married]].
* TheGamblingAddict: Inspector Grandjean runs a weekly poker game in Paris.
* GoryDiscretionShot: "Maigret's Dead Man" employs this three times. On two of those instances, someone is shown a file on the Picardie farm murder-robberies; as the victims were tortured, the contents are implied to be grisly, but they are never shown to the audience. The other instance occurs when the coroner begins dissecting the titular "dead man" with Maigret present, and hangs a lampshade on this trope when the coroner says that those of weak constitution should look away.
* TheGunslinger: While the entire Paris police force does carry firearms when necessary, Inspector Janvier fits this archetype the closest. He demonstrates his skills in "Maigret's Dead Man" when he manages to beat an armed assassin, despite the man having already drawn his gun.[[note]]Though this was partly helped by the fact that the assassin was aiming for someone else and had just fired a shot, Janvier still manages to draw and shoot accurately before the assassin can fire again.[[/note]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler:Inspector [=LaPointe=]]], who knew the slain burlesque performer of "Maigret in Montmartre" personally, and was even about to propose to her.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: A variant. The landlord in "Maigret's Dead Man" describes the gang's shared lover as their "Queen Bee" - just in time for her to let out a groan as she deals with labour pains.
* IShallTauntYou: After the BigBad of "Maigret's Dead Man" is successfully locked into a holding cell, the officers jingle the cell keys in front of him.
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Inspector Grandjean turns out to be responsible for the murder of a Jewish goldsmith in "Maigret at the Crossroads".]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin. It becomes clear that underneath a seemingly friendly exterior he is a seriously damaged man, which leads to him killing six different women.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Maigret's Dead Man" does this with the police station's switchboard, courtesy of slow-motion close-ups of buttons and switches being pushed to connect a caller.
* NiceHat: The series is set at a time when men were expected to keep their heads covered, even at night. Maigret wears a fashionable fedora.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: As applied to the earlier Michael Gambon series, the British actors don't attempt French accents, with the result that some of the characters speak in Cockney and other regional British dialects.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Czech translator (implied to be embassy personnel) is a downplayed example, brought in to translate for inspectors Maigret and Colombani in "Maigret's Dead Man" as they try to interrogate a female accomplice of the chief suspect to the Picardie farm murder-robberies. He tries to decline translating further, stating he does not want to infringe on human dignities--especially as said accomplice had just given birth. Colombani shuts him up by showing him the photos of the grisly aftermaths of the farm murders.
** Maigret himself ends up playing this role to Colombani in the beginning, as he goes against the chief's orders to devote all resources to helping Colombani solve the Picardie cases, keeping himself and the closest of his colleagues working on the "dead man" murder/body dump. His persistence pays off as the dead man was tangentially related to the Picardie cases, and the two of them collaborate to take down the man responsible for both.
* PetTheDog: Maigret has flowers from a released patient put in Maria's hospital room in "Maigret's Dead Man", even though she is about to be tried for murder, because she is still a woman who has just had a baby.
* PoliceBrutality: Morphine addict Philippe is on the receiving end of this from Inspector Janvier, who got a ''little'' too enthusiastic about getting the needed information out of him and got "help" from a pair of rather burly-looking policemen. Ironic also when one considers that [[spoiler:Janvier ends up saving his life after Maigret decides to let him go to catch the killer by surprise.]] Janvier even says that Philippe had "fallen down", and Maigret, knowing exactly what this means, strongly cautions him to make sure Philippe doesn't "fall" again.
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". Having been treated like a child his entire life, and failed at everything he ever tried to accomplish, drove him to insanity. During his break down in the climax, all he can do is rant over and over again like a six year old that he hates his mother and his wife.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In "Maigret Sets a Trap", French politicians are practically shouting that they want to enact curfews and allow the police to use [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique whatever means necessary]] to find the killer and get a confession. The Interior Minister, meanwhile, declares that he will not allow such things to happen as [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the German occupation]] is still a very recent memory to most of the French population. Unfortunately, this also means he has to pressure the investigating magistrate and Maigret himself to crack the case, so that they will not have to resort to such measures.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In "Maigret's Dead Man", [[spoiler:after Maigret has caught the killer, and the killer has dismissed the eponymous dead man as unimportant, Maigret counters that the dead man was loved and leaves behind a wife, whereas the killer is now universally despised and only has his guillotine execution to look forward to]].
** Maigret also delivers one in "Maigret in Montmartre" [[spoiler:to the killer, while being held at gunpoint.]]
* SerialKiller: One is terrorizing Paris in "Maigret Sets a Trap". He turns out to be [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin.]]
* SettingUpdate: "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", the novel of which was published in 1931, as opposed to the postwar setting of the series. Averted for the three other episodes, all of which were based on novels published from 1948 to 1955.
* ShovelStrike: Inspector Colombani delivers one to [[spoiler:Dacourt]] in the climax of "Maigret's Dead Man".
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Dacourt,]] the ring leader of the gang of thieves and main antagonist of "Maigret's Dead Man", Maigret outright states that he can steal, murder and torture countless innocent people simply cause he sees them as "things" to be used for his own benefit, not people.
* TheStoic: Maigret. Even when he's greatly angry or distressed he will not raise his voice or display his hand.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Maria, the gang's lover in "Maigret's Dead Man", appears to be aroused from Maigret describing how she burned a woman's breasts with a lit cigarette and slit her throat during a robbery.
* TooStupidToLive: Maria in "Maigret's Dead Man" figures she can make a break for it within seconds of giving birth. She doesn't get far.
* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Arpejan, in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads". Host not only to an underground fight club, but also a major smuggling ring with the local corrupt cops being in on it.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". While a dangerous serial killer responsible for the murder of six women, he’s been completely dominated his entire life by either his mother or his wife, both of which still treat him like a child, all his attempts to expand himself have failed. As Maigret outright states he’s nothing more than a failure and he knows it.]]
* TranquilFury: Due to his stoicism, Maigret never shouts or truly displays how angry he is. However when he’s confronting a bunch of especially vicious thieves and murders in “Maigret’s Dead Man” he’s still clearly utter furious.
** Maigret one-ups himself in "Maigret in Montmartre" when confronting the killer. The sheer cold ''rage'' he radiates out of every word needs to be seen to be believed. The fact that he gave such a ReasonYouSuckSpeech even while ''being held at gunpoint'' by the killer speaks volumes about how angry he is feeling.
--->[[spoiler:You turned a damaged child into a prostitute]], just so you could be ''comfortable''. You are beyond contempt. Beyond mercy...
* TranslationConvention: The characters are French but speak their dialogue in English. However, French can be heard in background conversations and all printed material is in French (with English translations floating next to important pieces of information).
* WhatTheHellHero: Mrs. Maigret is '''''not''''' thrilled with her husband's attempt to flush the killer out in "Maigret Sets a Trap" - and doesn't hesitate to show it.
* WorkingTheSameCase: The investigation in "Maigret's Dead Man" ultimately becomes this.
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''Maigret'' is a 2016 Creator/{{ITV}} drama series that is the latest adaptation of Creator/GeorgesSimenon's books about the French detective [[Literature/{{Maigret}} Jules Maigret]]. It stars Creator/RowanAtkinson as the titular detective. Two episodes aired in the first season and a further two in the second..
Set in 1950's UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, the show centers on Chief Inspector Jules Maigret's attempts to keep his city safe and to lock up dangerous criminals.
ITV had previously adapted the novels in the 1990's, also titled ''Maigret'', starring Creator/MichaelGambon. There had been a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] version starring Rupert Davies in the early 1960's.
Despite the success of the series, in early 2018 ITV released a statement saying that for the foreseeable future there would no more episodes commissioned due to Atkinson's busy schedule with other projects.
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!!''Maigret'' provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyGay: The flop house landlord in "Maigret's Dead Man" seems to be this.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Andersens in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" flee to Paris on a train operating to the Gare d'Orsay; however, the station closed to long-distance trains in 1939, long before the postwar setting of the episode (but not the novel, which was published in 1931).
* AutopsySnackTime: The coroner of "Maigret's Dead Man" is seen smoking even while working with the titular "dead man". The forensics specialist even asks him if he really needs to take a smoke while cutting bodies apart, and the coroner replies that it helps mask the odors.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:"Else Andersen"]] in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" is this, seemingly a troubled young woman, but secretly [[spoiler:the mastermind of a gang smuggling diamonds and stolen goods]].
* BritishBrevity: Each of the Atkinson series are comprised of two television films that are released months apart during holidays.
* DaChief: Rather surprisingly for a 1950s' piece, Maigret bumps up against his superior, the Investigating Magistrate, quite often.
* ConsummateProfessional: As always, Maigret's method of solving crimes is to simply and carefully go through every single detail, and see which parts fit together and which parts don't. His dedication has occasionally put strains upon his marriage, but it still serves him well in the end.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Isaac Goldberg, victim in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", is a Holocaust survivor.
* DeadpanSnarker: Creator/RowanAtkinson playing against type? Then this is a ''given.''
* DeathOfAChild: Maigret makes a reference to a girl who "would be 24 now" in "Maigret Sets A Trap", seemingly referring to a child of his and his wife who did not survive to adulthood.
* DirtyCop: The Arpajon police in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" is crooked, looking the other way over a garage that operates a secret fight club [[spoiler:and a smuggling ring]].
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Maigret is rarely seen without a pipe in his hand or his mouth, in contrast to other characters cigarette smoking. If he's not smoking it, he's fiddling with it, and keeps a rack full of pipes on his office desk and at home.
* EverybodySmokes: The series is set in 1950s Paris. ''Everyone'' is puffing away.
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Inspector Grandjean, the main antagonist of "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", is an old friend of Maigret's, having gone to the academy together. Maigret is naturally horrified to discover this.]]
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Inspector Grandjean in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" gives this impression, being inspector in Arpajon, a rural commune north of Paris.
* ForgetsToEat: Maigret has a habit of leaving meals uneaten when engrossed with his job, to his wife's exasperation.
* ForWantOfANail: The murderers in "Maigret's Dead Man" would have had an easier time getting away if it hadn't been for his lover going into labour just as the police were raiding the building.
* TheFundamentalist: Carl Andersen in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads" has shades of this, being a regular Bible reader with a crucifix on the wall (granted, not an uncommon feature of French homes). He also spent time in Antwerp preaching on a streetcorner and trying to save prostitutes, [[spoiler:including one he married]].
* TheGamblingAddict: Inspector Grandjean runs a weekly poker game in Paris.
* GoryDiscretionShot: "Maigret's Dead Man" employs this three times. On two of those instances, someone is shown a file on the Picardie farm murder-robberies; as the victims were tortured, the contents are implied to be grisly, but they are never shown to the audience. The other instance occurs when the coroner begins dissecting the titular "dead man" with Maigret present, and hangs a lampshade on this trope when the coroner says that those of weak constitution should look away.
* TheGunslinger: While the entire Paris police force does carry firearms when necessary, Inspector Janvier fits this archetype the closest. He demonstrates his skills in "Maigret's Dead Man" when he manages to beat an armed assassin, despite the man having already drawn his gun.[[note]]Though this was partly helped by the fact that the assassin was aiming for someone else and had just fired a shot, Janvier still manages to draw and shoot accurately before the assassin can fire again.[[/note]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler:Inspector [=LaPointe=]]], who knew the slain burlesque performer of "Maigret in Montmartre" personally, and was even about to propose to her.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: A variant. The landlord in "Maigret's Dead Man" describes the gang's shared lover as their "Queen Bee" - just in time for her to let out a groan as she deals with labour pains.
* IShallTauntYou: After the BigBad of "Maigret's Dead Man" is successfully locked into a holding cell, the officers jingle the cell keys in front of him.
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Inspector Grandjean turns out to be responsible for the murder of a Jewish goldsmith in "Maigret at the Crossroads".]]
* TheMentallyDisturbed: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin. It becomes clear that underneath a seemingly friendly exterior he is a seriously damaged man, which leads to him killing six different women.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Maigret's Dead Man" does this with the police station's switchboard, courtesy of slow-motion close-ups of buttons and switches being pushed to connect a caller.
* NiceHat: The series is set at a time when men were expected to keep their heads covered, even at night. Maigret wears a fashionable fedora.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: As applied to the earlier Michael Gambon series, the British actors don't attempt French accents, with the result that some of the characters speak in Cockney and other regional British dialects.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Czech translator (implied to be embassy personnel) is a downplayed example, brought in to translate for inspectors Maigret and Colombani in "Maigret's Dead Man" as they try to interrogate a female accomplice of the chief suspect to the Picardie farm murder-robberies. He tries to decline translating further, stating he does not want to infringe on human dignities--especially as said accomplice had just given birth. Colombani shuts him up by showing him the photos of the grisly aftermaths of the farm murders.
** Maigret himself ends up playing this role to Colombani in the beginning, as he goes against the chief's orders to devote all resources to helping Colombani solve the Picardie cases, keeping himself and the closest of his colleagues working on the "dead man" murder/body dump. His persistence pays off as the dead man was tangentially related to the Picardie cases, and the two of them collaborate to take down the man responsible for both.
* PetTheDog: Maigret has flowers from a released patient put in Maria's hospital room in "Maigret's Dead Man", even though she is about to be tried for murder, because she is still a woman who has just had a baby.
* PoliceBrutality: Morphine addict Philippe is on the receiving end of this from Inspector Janvier, who got a ''little'' too enthusiastic about getting the needed information out of him and got "help" from a pair of rather burly-looking policemen. Ironic also when one considers that [[spoiler:Janvier ends up saving his life after Maigret decides to let him go to catch the killer by surprise.]] Janvier even says that Philippe had "fallen down", and Maigret, knowing exactly what this means, strongly cautions him to make sure Philippe doesn't "fall" again.
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". Having been treated like a child his entire life, and failed at everything he ever tried to accomplish, drove him to insanity. During his break down in the climax, all he can do is rant over and over again like a six year old that he hates his mother and his wife.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In "Maigret Sets a Trap", French politicians are practically shouting that they want to enact curfews and allow the police to use [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique whatever means necessary]] to find the killer and get a confession. The Interior Minister, meanwhile, declares that he will not allow such things to happen as [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the German occupation]] is still a very recent memory to most of the French population. Unfortunately, this also means he has to pressure the investigating magistrate and Maigret himself to crack the case, so that they will not have to resort to such measures.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In "Maigret's Dead Man", [[spoiler:after Maigret has caught the killer, and the killer has dismissed the eponymous dead man as unimportant, Maigret counters that the dead man was loved and leaves behind a wife, whereas the killer is now universally despised and only has his guillotine execution to look forward to]].
** Maigret also delivers one in "Maigret in Montmartre" [[spoiler:to the killer, while being held at gunpoint.]]
* SerialKiller: One is terrorizing Paris in "Maigret Sets a Trap". He turns out to be [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin.]]
* SettingUpdate: "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads", the novel of which was published in 1931, as opposed to the postwar setting of the series. Averted for the three other episodes, all of which were based on novels published from 1948 to 1955.
* ShovelStrike: Inspector Colombani delivers one to [[spoiler:Dacourt]] in the climax of "Maigret's Dead Man".
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Dacourt,]] the ring leader of the gang of thieves and main antagonist of "Maigret's Dead Man", Maigret outright states that he can steal, murder and torture countless innocent people simply cause he sees them as "things" to be used for his own benefit, not people.
* TheStoic: Maigret. Even when he's greatly angry or distressed he will not raise his voice or display his hand.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Maria, the gang's lover in "Maigret's Dead Man", appears to be aroused from Maigret describing how she burned a woman's breasts with a lit cigarette and slit her throat during a robbery.
* TooStupidToLive: Maria in "Maigret's Dead Man" figures she can make a break for it within seconds of giving birth. She doesn't get far.
* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Arpejan, in "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads". Host not only to an underground fight club, but also a major smuggling ring with the local corrupt cops being in on it.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Marcel Moncin from "Maigret Sets a Trap". While a dangerous serial killer responsible for the murder of six women, he’s been completely dominated his entire life by either his mother or his wife, both of which still treat him like a child, all his attempts to expand himself have failed. As Maigret outright states he’s nothing more than a failure and he knows it.]]
* TranquilFury: Due to his stoicism, Maigret never shouts or truly displays how angry he is. However when he’s confronting a bunch of especially vicious thieves and murders in “Maigret’s Dead Man” he’s still clearly utter furious.
** Maigret one-ups himself in "Maigret in Montmartre" when confronting the killer. The sheer cold ''rage'' he radiates out of every word needs to be seen to be believed. The fact that he gave such a ReasonYouSuckSpeech even while ''being held at gunpoint'' by the killer speaks volumes about how angry he is feeling.
--->[[spoiler:You turned a damaged child into a prostitute]], just so you could be ''comfortable''. You are beyond contempt. Beyond mercy...
* TranslationConvention: The characters are French but speak their dialogue in English. However, French can be heard in background conversations and all printed material is in French (with English translations floating next to important pieces of information).
* WhatTheHellHero: Mrs. Maigret is '''''not''''' thrilled with her husband's attempt to flush the killer out in "Maigret Sets a Trap" - and doesn't hesitate to show it.
* WorkingTheSameCase: The investigation in "Maigret's Dead Man" ultimately becomes this.
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