Netflix’s Twisty Crime Thriller Officially Returns After a 3-Year Wait

Of course, none of us technically approve of crime, because crime is bad. But let’s say, for argument’s sake, that we approve of some of it. Then, that being said, there’s something incredibly satisfying about watching a criminal who always seems to be ten steps ahead of everybody else, particularly when he’s so charming that you can’t help rooting for him even when he’s breaking just about every law imaginable. That’s been the case with Omar Sy‘s Assane Diop ever since he first stepped onto our screens and made the French police look stupid.

Lupin has officially returned to Netflix with Part 4 on October 23, 2026, bringing eight new episodes of the French crime thriller to the streaming service. The cast is led by Sy (The Intouchables) as Assane Diop, alongside Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool) as Claire, Antoine Gouy (The Days That Made History) as Benjamin Ferel, Soufiane Guerrab (School Life) as Youssef Guédira and Shirine Boutella (Papicha) as Sofia Belkacem. Théo Christine (Suprêmes) and Laïka Blanc-Francard (The New Look) also feature in the new installment.

The show very quickly became an international sensation after it debuted in 2021 as it introduced a blend of old-fashioned detective storytelling with modern action and plenty of unexpected twists. But there’s a simpler truth to all this, because beneath all the disguises and elaborate plans is a man whose actions have largely been driven by his desire to clear his father’s name and protect the people he loves.

Four criminal masterminds. One of them was always going to be yours.
Here is who comes for you, why they picked you out of everyone available, and what they want from
the encounter.

Your nemesis does not want to beat you. He wants to know you
completely, and he is patient enough to wait for it. The frightening part is how good the
conversation is.

• Lecter is the most dangerous kind of opponent: the one who finds you interesting. He
  never raises his voice, because he has never needed to.
• You keep a great deal to yourself and you are careful about what you show. That reserve
  is exactly the door he would knock on.
• The films understood something other thrillers missed. The horror is not the violence.
  It is being perfectly understood by the wrong person.
• He would be unfailingly polite about all of it. That is the worst part.

Your nemesis is not after money, territory or revenge. He is
after a demonstration, and you are the person he has chosen to prove his point on.

• The Joker only picks opponents who believe in something. Your decency is not a defence
  against him. It is the entire reason he showed up.
• He has no plan you can predict and nothing you can take away, which removes every tool
  you would normally reach for.
• His whole argument is that you are one bad day away from being him, and you would spend
  the rest of your life proving him wrong.
• He would call it a magic trick. You would call it the worst night of your life.

Your nemesis respects you, which sounds flattering until you work
out what it means. He chose you because nobody else was worth his time.

• Moriarty is the original criminal mastermind, the template every later one borrows from:
  a mind the equal of the hero’s, pointed the wrong way.
• You enjoy being the cleverest person in the room. He is counting on exactly that, and he
  has already built the room.
• This is the rare nemesis who would be genuinely disappointed if you lost badly. He needs
  the game to be worth playing.
• It ends the way these things always end. Two people, one problem, and only one way down.

Your nemesis has no personal interest in you whatsoever, and that
is precisely what makes him unsurvivable. You are not a rival. You are a stop on the way.

• Chigurh does not negotiate, gloat or explain. He arrives, he asks one question, and the
  answer was decided long before you opened your mouth.
• You trust yourself to handle things. He is the one problem in the world that has no
  interest in how capable you are.
• No Country for Old Men rewrote the screen villain by removing the thing audiences
  quietly rely on: the sense that talking might work.
• Call it. He will wait.

What Is Season 4 of ‘Lupin’ About?

Four years after the end of Lupin Part 3, Assane is still in prison. For him, Lupin is no more: He wants to serve out his sentence and keep the promise he made to his son to go and meet their family in Senegal. But his plans are turned upside down by a mysterious announcement signed by “Lupin”: Multiple museums are to be hit with simultaneous heists. In spite of heightened security, the thefts go off as planned. Assane proclaims his innocence, but everything points to his guilt. A camera even shows him in one of the museums during a robbery in which Captain Belkacem is seriously injured. To prove his innocence and unmask the copycat, Assane must escape and don the Lupin costume once more.

Lupin Part 4 is streaming now exclusively on Netflix, with all eight episodes available to watch.

Guided and inspired by his love for Maurice Leblanc’s classic Arsène Lupin stories, a charismatic gentleman thief sets out for revenge against the wealthy family responsible for his father’s death.