Japanese comic “Ultraviolence” and Korean hell
The Korean phenomenon series Squid Game, with its ultraviolence and extreme games, attracted a very young audience, too young in the opinion of many. It may well be that the same is true for Cowboy Bebop, American adaptation of a Japanese animated series with real actors. Released in the late 1990s, the series was declined in feature films and manga, dragging in its wake a reputation of ultraviolence.
The trailer shows the particularly bloody adventures of a trio of more or less repentant bounty hunters who hunt criminals through the solar system, aboard their ship, the Bebop. Its polished “bédéesque” aesthetic, close to the Burlesque à la Tarantino in the scenes of violent fights, its central characters caricatured at first glance sympathetic and its soundtrack loaded with jazz “bebop” influences make it a good candidate for success with too young an audience.
Another production from a fairly violent Asian work appears in the catalog of the red giant this week. The (Korean) adaptation, and with “real actors”, of the Korean digital comic Hellbound tell how, on a “fantastic” version of our Earth, immense and terrifying creatures seize humans to send them to hell, in immense pain, which favors the emergence of a new influential religious group. Nothing good jojo …
Cowboy Bebop (VOA) and Hellbound Prophecies (VA)
Netflix, starting November 19
Girls stories
Two fiction series posted online in Canada on the Crave platform in the coming days have quartets of young women in their prime as central characters, but their stories have absolutely nothing in common … at least at first glance .
Successful writer and producer Mindy Kaling (The Office, The Mindy Project) teamed up with Justin Noble, writer of several episodes ofBrooklyn nine-nine, after a first collaboration for his teenage comedy My first times, for this other comic series that ventures into the too often explored territory of the sex, love and friendly life of horny college recruits.
The short extracts that we were able to see do not announce anything very transcendent, either a learning story with more or less bold humor highlighting the beginnings of the “adult” life of four young women in search of thrills. who attend a posh university and live in the same student residence. Perhaps the first two full episodes launched this week (which will be followed by bunches of chapters unveiled until December) will prove to be more original and complex, or at the very least loaded with a humor that hits the mark …
In a completely different register, Yellowjackets also offers a learning story, but rather eyeing the side of the thriller with horrific accents. This Canada-US series spans two distinct eras in the lives of four members of a high school women’s soccer team, the title Yellowjackets. They are discovered in the prime of their lives when they are the victims of a plane crash in the depths of an Ontario forest – and that they must find more or less “ethical” ways to survive. waiting for help. Then, 25 years later, in middle age, when the wounds and traumas of yesteryear resurface and may lead some to seek revenge.
The first critical echoes are a bit contradictory on this production starring Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Mélanie Lynskey and Quebecer Sophie Nélisse, emphasizing both the effective suspense, but also the caricatured outlines of the characters. It will be necessary to venture there to get an idea.
The Sex Life of College Girls (VOA only)
Crave, from November 18
Yellowjackets (VOA only)
Showtime and Crave, Sunday, 10 p.m.