Five months after it became the first major streaming hit of 2021, “Lupin” will return Friday with fans desperate to see how Omar Sy’s gentleman-burglar escapes the latest cliffhanger.
Netflix delivered only the first five episodes of the show in January, inspired by the cat-and-mouse novels of Maurice Leblanc from the early 20th century, because the pandemic interrupted filming last year.
Sy plays Assane Diop, a fan of the novels who uses the character of Lupin as he seeks vengeance for his wrongly-accused father.
The combination of a charismatic lead, Parisian backdrops and an undercurrent of race relations made it the first bona fide made-in-France hit for the streami…
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