Childhood friends and reluctant roommates Tom and Lola navigate their complicated past while solving gripping crimes as police inspectors in Tom and Lola – a new French mystery series from the creators of Tandem!

Tom Serino (Pierre-Yves Bon, Piste Noire, Murder In…) and Lola Briand (Dounia Coesens, The Doc and the Vet, The Art of Crime) are police inspectors – Tom is disciplined and by-the-book; Lola is impulsive, intuitive and unafraid to challenge any authority. They are also childhood friends whose relationship later turned romantic and then collapsed. Now, Lola is a single mother raising two teenage kids on her own and Tom has a 14-year-old daughter. After the breakup of Tom’s marriage, Tom and Lola become reluctant roommates as they are forced to share an apartment, navigating daily life filled with awkward silences, old habits and unresolved history while trying to coexist under one roof and raise three kids at the same time! Their shared past gives even the smallest domestic conflict emotional weight and constantly threatens to spill into their professional lives.

Each episode centers on a self-contained investigation, often rooted in everyday disputes rather than sensational crimes. While the procedural plots provide momentum, the season’s ongoing arc focuses on Tom and Lola learning how to work together again after years of shared history. Their childhood bond, romantic fallout and current living situation shape how they interrogate suspects, comfort victims and question their own judgments.

Filmed in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southern France, the series makes strong use of its Mediterranean settings. Sunlit streets, coastal towns and smaller urban centers provide a warmer, more relaxed visual contrast to the personal tension between the leads and the darker subject matter of the cases. This regional backdrop gives Tom and Lola a distinct identity among French crime dramas and reinforces its focus on character driven stories rooted in ordinary lives.