Robin Aubert launches Bienvenue à Kingston-Falls today on the Extra de Tou.tv, putting six one-hour episodes online at once on Radio-Canada’s paid platform. The new police series arrives as a concentrated release rather than a weekly rollout, which makes it a quick test of whether viewers will commit to the whole run immediately.
Robin Aubert signs both the scenario and the direction, and the series leans into a mix that flirts with Agatha Christie, Les voisins, Fargo, Twin Peaks and Inspirez, expirez. For Quebec television viewers, that means a six-episode block built around a mystery instead of a slow-burn broadcast schedule.
Gabriel Serpent at Kingston-Falls
Maxime Le Flaguais plays sergent-détective Gabriel Serpent, the chief of the local mini-police station in the small fictitious municipality of Kingston-Falls in Centre-du-Québec. The investigation begins with a victim buried fesses en l’air in farmer Hervé Lebrun’s field, a setup that pushes the series into murder territory from the start.
Gabriel Serpent is also written as a father of teenage twins obsessed with video games, and he says little about the mother of his children, who appears only in a photo in the family home. That private-life pressure gives the investigator more to juggle than the case alone.
Guylou and the parish hall
Micheline Bernard plays the doctor-legist Guylou, while the series also follows five women in the tricot circle of the parish hall. Louise Turcot, Michèle Deslauriers, Lise Roy, Sophie Clément and Danielle Lépine play the five commères, extending the story beyond the police station and into the town’s social fabric.
That wider cast matters because the series is built as a police show that is both sautée et sérieuse. The case, the doctor-legist, the parish-hall circle and the family setup all sit inside the same six-episode package, so viewers get a closed run rather than an open-ended season.
Six one-hour episodes
The six episodes are each one hour long, and all are deposited in a single block on the platform today. For a paid service, that kind of release gives the series a sharper opening than a staggered schedule would, especially for a project that is already pitching a distinctive tone.
Kingston-Falls is presented as a fictitious municipality that resembles Ham-Nord, Kingsey Falls or Danville, which gives the setting a local texture without tying it to one exact place. Aubert’s job now is simple to state and hard to do: make the first viewing block strong enough that the full six-episode drop feels like the right way in.
