The Mother and The Assassin

Name: The Mother and The Assassin
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Crime
Rating: 8.5
Cast: Hélène de Fougerolles, Florent Peyre, François-David Cardonnel, Juliette Delacroix

La Mère et l'Assassin (2026)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 4

Drama, Mystery, Crime

France

France 2

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Production

Episode Productions, France Télévisions

Premiere

11 January 2026

Last episode

18 January 2026

Status

Completed

Creators

Alexandra Echkenazi

Scenario

Alexandra Echkenazi

All team (3)

Actors

Hélène de Fougerolles

Morgane Jourdan

Florent Peyre

Samuel Jourdan

Vittoria Di Savoia

Océane Jourdan

François-David Cardonnel

Hugo Bennec

Juliette Delacroix

Chloé Rousseau

Vicki Andren

Alizée Jourdan

Alika Del Sol

Caro

All actors and roles (7)

Short description

Morgane Jourdan, in her forties, leads a well-ordered life with her restaurateur husband, Samuel, and their two teenage daughters, Océane and Alizée. A teacher who has become the principal of a middle school, she juggles her demanding job with her family life. Everything changes when 17-year-old Océane suddenly disappears after a party where she caught her mother in a compromising situation with Hugo Bennec, her physical education teacher. Consumed by anguish and guilt, Morgane throws herself headlong into the search for her daughter.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1 In the sunny coastal town of Martigues, teenagers spend their afternoons kitesurfing after school. Against this idyllic backdrop, Océane, a seemingly ordinary teenager and the high school's principal's daughter, suddenly vanishes. Adaptation of the novel by Alexandra Echkenazi.	4	2026-01-11	—