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In France, zinema would say 13.

What it's about

The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has just set sail for a strategic mission in the Eastern Mediterranean, a region where the situation is volatile. Shortly after departure, however, a female crew member is found dead and another is reported missing. Despite the danger, the operation continues, and a military investigator is urgently dispatched on board. When a new victim is discovered, the Charles, a veritable floating city of 1,800 men and 240 women, turns into a trap where a killer, mounting tensions, and unfolding events threaten the crew and perhaps even the country itself.

Why 13

• Our readingNot rated in the US. We say 13: Murders filmed up close in episodes 5 and 6, with almost no blood, and the victims' bodies in every episode of a dark thriller. Thirteen on their own, twelve with a parent.
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• Murders filmed up closeIn episode 5, a young sailor is strangled up close, in near darkness, for about thirty seconds. She fights back, then goes still. In episode 6, an officer is run through with a saber and a young woman is stabbed in cold blood. There is almost no blood, but these scenes are long and shown head-on.
• Bodies, episode after episodeThe show keeps coming back to the victims: a female officer found hanged, seen from a distance, close-ups of dead faces in the sick bay and the morgue, a body on the floor with its eyes open, blood on a young woman's neck.
• Trapped as the water risesIn episode 4, two young sailors are stuck in a walk-in freezer that is filling with water. One of them passes out and goes under. The tension lasts for several long minutes.
• Rough, barracks-room languageSwearing comes up in almost every episode, and one crude, sexist remark is aimed at a female officer. The show includes it to call it out.
• A love scene, only suggestedTwo pilots kiss in the showers, then the scene plays out as blurry shapes behind steamed-up glass for a few seconds, with no nudity.

What the series brings

• A gripping locked-room mystery that shows life aboard an aircraft carrier, and the women who hold their own there in the face of prejudice.

Watching it together

Season by season

the reading per season, episode by episode · expand

Season 1 · 6 episodes, 53 min on average · zinema reading 12, 11 with a parent · France 12

1 episode out of 6 at the top of the series. What's in each episode, without telling the story:

Episode	What's in it
1 · Episode 1	Nearly half in the dark; deaths shown; fights; lots of weapons.
2 · Episode 2	More than half the episode in the dark; blood on screen; deaths shown; scary music; fights; ends on a tense note.
3 · Episode 3	More than half the episode in the dark; fights; lots of weapons; some swearing.
4 · Episode 4	More than half the episode in the dark; deaths told; some swearing; ends on a tense note.
5 · Episode 5	More than half the episode in the dark; deaths shown; fights; some swearing.
6 · Episode 6	More than half the episode in the dark; deaths shown; scary music; fights; lots of weapons; some swearing; ends on a tense note.

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A zinema reading from October 23, 2026 · the 6 episodes of season 1, watched one by one · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made