comic pregnancy
While the Supreme Court of the United States has just invalidated a judgment which protected the right of women to abortion, the show Big by humorist Katherine Levac now sees herself as a snub to the politics that are taking place south of the border. Pregnant with twins during the public recording — which was also produced last summer by her companion, filmmaker Chloé Robichaud — Katherine Levac evokes, with all the bite and energy that we know from her, this pregnancy that she has chosen and desired.
In this show, Katherine Levac explores motherhood with irony and vivacity by tackling themes ranging from assisted procreation to sperm banks, grossophobia, homosexuality and the profession of humorist. In this regard, the beginning of Big, where Katherine Levac compares her universe, stardom, to the more “chic” one linked to the seventh art and to which Chloé Robichaud belongs, sets the tone for an hour where ultrasarcastic comments follow one another in a deliciously satirical escalation. Levac does not fail to have fun with the series that she now hosts, Love is in the meadowespecially when she reads crazy comments from the public who wondered about her pregnancy, revealing certain flaws in society.
Big
Crave, from July 6
Friendship
The documentary series Soulmates takes a close look, over the course of four episodes accompanied by a series of podcasts, in the unbreakable ties that have united the Ursuline and Augustinian nuns of Canada for several centuries. Journalist and cultural mediator Catherine-Ève Gadoury and historian Mélanie Lafrance thus review some 400 years of a common history, from their arrival in Quebec in 1639 to today, the nuns of the present bringing to life those of the past in reading and embodying, in particular, their correspondence. Although their communities had different functions—the Augustinians being devoted to education and the Ursulines to hospital care—their friendship was, and remains, unwavering despite the hardships. Far from the cliché of women leading a severe and monotonous life, Soulmates on the contrary, reveals colorful personalities, imbued with humour, sympathy and benevolence.
Soulmates
Know.media
Oops…I saw my dead body
In Boo, bitchErika (Lana Condor) and Gia (Zoe Margaret Colletti), two discreet teenagers, want to have fun and forget everything to finish high school in style, but, to everyone’s surprise, the ultimate party the best friends attend does not won’t go exactly as planned… A car accident will happen and Erika will, in a way, turn into a ghost, which will make her maybe miss (or not, and that’s the whole point of the game). show) her prom.
As in all good fiction coming of age » which respects itself, a love story between Erika and the ex-boyfriend of her rival will be born (a ghost who « ghosts » someone, it’s worth a look), but the miniseries of Erin Ehrlich and Lauren Jungerich is a bit more lively than what we are used to seeing. The atmosphere is indeed bitchy and spicy to perfection, social networks and Generation Z oblige, and the turn of events will leave no one unmoved.
Boo, bitch
Netflix, from July 8