Maigret follows a young detective's rise inside the Police Judiciaire, built around his knack for reading the criminals he chases and an intimate knowledge of Paris itself.
What is Maigret about?
This series centers on Jules Maigret in the early years of his career, already marked out as a rising figure inside the Police Judiciaire. His method leans less on procedure than on instinct: an ability to get inside the mindset of the people he investigates, paired with a command of Paris and its neighborhoods that lets him read a case through the city around it. Across its episodes, the show follows Maigret's investigations one at a time, using each case to sketch a different corner of the capital and a different kind of criminal mind, while building the detective's reputation as someone relentless enough to see a case through to the end.
About the cast
Benjamin Wainwright plays Jules Maigret, with Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok, and Rachel Shelley appearing across the series as colleagues and figures drawn into his investigations.
Context & significance
Maigret is a UK-France co-production directed across its run by David Evans, Faye Gilbert, and Patrick Harbinson, and it joins a long line of adaptations of Georges Simenon's detective, reworked here as an origin story following the character in his earlier, less established years on the force. Each episode runs 53 minutes, closer to the pace of a standalone case-of-the-week format than a single serialized mystery, giving the show room to move between a new setting and a new set of suspects every episode while Maigret's own standing inside the Police Judiciaire keeps building underneath it.
Watching Maigret on Ktime
Maigret streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the investigations in either version after a free account login. The platform's Farsi interface makes browsing a crime series like this one easy without switching languages.