CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (Season 1)

CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (Coincoin et les Z'inhumains, 2018) is a French comedy sci-fi series you can watch online on iFILM. Director Bruno Dumont follows up his 2014 mini-series "P'tit Quinquin": a strange magma surfaces near CoinCoin's village in northern France and the locals start behaving even more oddly than usual.

Goofy Captain Van Der Weyden and his assistant Carpentier return to investigate what turns out to be an actual extraterrestrial invasion. In Dumont's hands it functions less as a threat than as a lens for watching how people come apart when normalcy dissolves. The humour is dry, the dread is quiet, and the two are difficult to separate. Bernard Pruvost and Philippe Jore carry the deadpan double act from the earlier series with the same unhurried strangeness.

Stream CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (2018) online on iFILM.