Shock Waves (TV series)
# Shock Waves (TV series)

Shock Waves (French: Ondes de choc) is a Swiss television drama anthology series, broadcast by Radio Télévision Suisse in 2018. The series consisted of four television films dramatizing true crime stories from European history.

The episodes premiered theatrically at the Solothurn Film Festival in February 2018, and two episodes of the series, Diary of My Mind and First Name: Mathieu, received theatrical screenings in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, prior to their television premieres in July. All four episodes were later screened at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival.

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | "Diary of My Mind (French: Journal de ma tête)" | Ursula Meier | Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier | July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13) |
| Madame Fontanel (Fanny Ardant), a school teacher, must confront the effects of having been made an unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her student Benjamin (Kacey Mottet Klein), when he confesses to the murder and his motivations in a homework assignment he turned in to her just before committing the crime. |||||
| 2 | "Sirius" | Frédéric Mermoud | François Decodts, Laurent Larivière, Frédéric Mermoud | July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13) |
| Based on the Order of the Solar Temple fires at Salvan in 1994, a cult prepares for a mass ritual suicide. |||||
| 3 | "First Name: Mathieu (French: Prénom: Mathieu)" | Lionel Baier | Lionel Baier | July 20, 2018 (2018-07-20) |
| Based on the real life case of serial killer Michel Peiry, teenager Mathieu (Maxime Gorbatchevsky) copes with being the sole survivor of a serial killer after being kidnapped and raped but escaping. |||||
| 4 | "The Valley (French: La Vallée)" | Jean-Stéphane Bron | Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour | July 20, 2018 (2018-07-20) |
| Riyad (Ilies Kadri) tries to outrun the police in a valley, after a failed attempt at car theft. |||||
