A look at Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau)

The Bureau des Légendes (English title: The Bureau) has been proclaimed as a landmark series in fictional depictions of intelligence. Promotional campaigns stressed the “realistic” qualities of the storyline. Despite this, the series tends to reproduce the lack of distinction between espionage and intelligence. Its main innovation is an aesthetic one, where its foreign “equivalents” provide more explicit theories regarding threats, and a lack of success in the operations led by the protagonists can be questioned.