The SentinelsA different kind of war. A new breed of soldier.
1915, WWI. French Private Gabriel is presumed dead. Selected for a top-secret program, he’s given a serum that makes him stronger and faster. To see his family again, he must join the Sentinels, elite soldiers on a mission to end the war.
DirectorsThierry Poiraud, Edouard Salier
WritersXavier Dorisson, Xabi Molia, Guillaume Lemans, Raphaëlle Richet, Alberto Breccia
Episode 1
Sep 29, 2025
In 1915, in the middle of the First World War, Gabriel Ferraud, a soldier of the French army, was wounded on the front. Rescued and evacuated, he was approached by army officials. He learns that he is selected to integrate an ultra-secret research project: the Sentinels program...
Episode 2
Sep 29, 2025
Gabriel must join the Sentinels Brigade if he wants to see his family again, who believes him to be dead. After the attack of the secret military laboratory, an investigation is carried out, which does not please Colonel Mirreau, at the head of the program of the Sentinels...
Episode 3
Oct 6, 2025
By conducting blood tests, Marthe discovers that Ferraud's body is not eliminating the serum and that Sergeant Djibouti's health is deteriorating. Having become aggressive and uncontrollable during his first mission, Gabriel tries to explain to the doctor how he felt. Meanwhile, Colonel Mirreau questions Grüber about the German army's research into another combat serum. The Baron uses Gisèle's esoteric gifts to locate Grüber and prevent him from talking.
Episode 4
Oct 13, 2025
The General Staff orders the elimination of the German superhuman, who has become the Sentinels' main enemy. As they set out on his trail, the Sentinels are unaware that they are about to face the Übermensch, an adversary with immeasurable powers...
Episode 5
Oct 20, 2025
Irène investigates a news story involving Mirreau that seems to be linked to a state secret. At the cabaret “Les Damnés,” the Baron discovers that Gisèle has run away. After the tragic loss of a comrade-in-arms, Gabriel does everything he can to return quickly to Paris to see his son and wife...
Episode 6
Oct 27, 2025
The Sentinels must free Mazauric, the mastermind behind the Dyxenal research, before he hands over vital information about the French serum to the Germans. At Les Damnés, the Baron receives a visit from Diane, a German spy who promises to find Gisèle if he helps her.
Episode 7
Nov 3, 2025
On their way to free Mazauric, de Clermont is seriously wounded by a German patrol. Djibouti and Gabriel continue their mission without him and unwittingly draw closer to the Übermensch. At the laboratory, Marthe conducts the first tests on the new recruit, Aria, a young woman sentenced to death, whom she injects with the combat serum.
Episode 8
Nov 10, 2025
Irène's investigation has become too dangerous and must be stopped. Held prisoner by the Germans, Gabriel and Djibouti receive help. The Sentinels will have to face the Übermensch, their most formidable enemy...
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"The Sentinels" is a French military cyberpunk imagining of an alternate WWI. It's based on a comic book series I've honestly never heard of but wished I had. I like its premise of a French special forces unit made up of super soldiers drugged up on a serum that leads to often unexpected outcomes. Sets, costumes, and the atmosphere of smoky, dirty, war-worn cities and battlefields are skillfully done. Cinematography is excellent too, with slow-motion scenes that cut into polished action to help bring things to life. I can't fault the acting and characterizations either. You get a real sense of each character, their motivations, desires, ambitions, and shortcomings. Where this series could have been better is in aspects of its scripting. At its core this should be a fast-paced action series, but instead it tries too hard to "also" be a drama. The result is the pacing is off; it's broken up all too often by shifts in scenes to accommodate the at times overstated personal drama that ultimately gets in the way.At times the script makes little sense too, for example, why try to turn a thin black woman, who is about to be executed for murder, into a soldier? No athletic male criminals available, who are not presumably dangerous, convicted killers? (DEI pandering perhaps?). In summary, great premise, lots of promise, but let down by not adhering more closely to the fast paced, frenetic action, that should be at the heart of this series. An okay but at times irrational and frustratingly slow watch.
