The Last Panthers, SundanceTV’s latest import (this one from France’s Canal+), is a multi-lingual six-part limited drama series loosely inspired by the real life case of the Pink Panther jewel thieves. A gritty crime drama, it opens with a particularly scrappy diamond heist, reminiscent of those true events, before leaping into uncharted fictional territory, wherein the robbery inadvertently claims the life of a 6-year-old girl caught in the crossfire during the police pursuit. In the wake of that tragedy, an equally determined cop (Tahir Rahim) and dogged insurance agent (Samantha Morton) team to bring in the escaped thief (Goran Bogdan) they hold responsible. From there, the holy trinity of heist dramas arrives, its members on a collision course: the cop, the criminal and the invested corporate party.
