Lupin review: the French series taking Netflix by storm

It’s good, slick escapism, and easily binged in a day

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Lupin star Omar Sy ‘brims with charisma’
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Created by the British writer George Kay, Lupin is “good, stupid fun”, and is predicted to become one of Netflix’s biggest hits, said Hugo Rifkind in The Times. Omar Sy stars as Assane, a young French man who sees himself as a modern-day Arsène Lupin – the gentleman thief and master of disguise created by the French writer Maurice Leblanc more than 100 years ago.

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