After a three-year hiatus, Netflix’s French heist series Lupin returns for Part 4 — and this time it leans fully into the soap opera drama that has always made it tick. IGN’s review finds the Omar Sy-led series brisk, melodramatic and all the better for it across its eight new episodes.
Lupin Part 4 (Credits: Netflix)
Lupin Part 4 Review: A Soft Reboot After Three Years
Part 3 ended on a major cliffhanger, with gentleman thief Assane Diop (Omar Sy) — a devotee of Maurice Leblanc’s fictional fraudster Arsène Lupin — in prison, in a cell next to his longtime, opulent enemy Hubert Pellegrini (Hervé Pierre). Part 4 resolves that tension by treating it almost like a gag: four years have passed, and Assane has willingly remained behind bars — except for a brief escape in which he bamboozled Pellegrini all the way into a shipping container bound for a Malaysian prison.
Now on the verge of release for good behavior, it seems Assane has finally turned over a new leaf. That is, until a slickly executed pair of simultaneous heists in his signature style makes the police suspicious, forcing him to go rogue to prove his innocence. An extended recap narrated by Assane himself kicks things off, before the show hits the soft-reboot button both narratively and stylistically.
Raoul Becomes the Heart of Lupin Part 4
The season’s biggest change is also its most welcome: it embraces the soap opera underpinnings that have always powered the show. A winding conspiracy takes precedence, involving a copycat swindler and twists ripped straight from daytime television — a secret lineage, sudden deaths, equally sudden resurrections — forcing Lupin to turn to former foes for new partnerships in search of a secret treasure.
Meanwhile, Assane’s son Raoul — once little more than a plot device and kidnapping victim — has grown into a frustrated young adult, now played by newcomer Théo Christine. Raoul becomes the series’ unexpected heart and soul, even as the narrative and Assane keep shoving him aside until those frustrations reach a boiling point.
IGN notes the season does spin its wheels near the end, but ultimately finds its way to the kind of ludicrous melodrama that makes Lupin such a turn-your-brain-off delight. For fans who have waited three years, Part 4 looks like a confident, crowd-pleasing return for Netflix’s gentleman thief.
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