(In France, the character has appeared in film adaptations, several television series, at least two daily comic strips, an operetta and more.) And yet for whatever reason, without any firsthand knowledge, his was a name rattling around in the big box of pop-cultural bric-a-brac that is my brain I knew, anyway that he was a “gentleman thief,” like Leslie Charteris’ The Saint, or David Niven in “The Pink Panther.” “Lupin” refers to the character Arsène Lupin, not particularly well known in the United States these days despite having been played on the American screen by John Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas among others. It’s a long bandwagon you may want to join if you’d like to be somewhere else for a while, a trip to Paris filled with pretty people and views, with action and emotions and just enough meaning - matters of race and class and such - to make you feel that that there is something substantial to the melodrama. The first episode is arranged to make you think one thing, which raises all kinds of questions, and leaves you thinking quite another, which raises questions of its own. 8 debut, even more than “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chances are good you have - and are spoiler averse, you may want to stop reading now. If you are a person who watches Netflix, you have no doubt been greeted on arrival by a recommendation to watch “Lupin.” If you have not already begun to watch it - and with the streamer having announced an expected 70 million households had at least taken a peek within a month of its Jan.
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