Never, you never regret your first time!

It’s heartening to see the brilliant third season of my first times (Never Have I Ever) accumulate views in the tens of millions on the Netflix platform.

As of Wednesday, this comedy for teens filled with wit and punchy dialogue was enthroned in second place on the list of Netflix’s most-watched shows, behind the blockbuster The Sandmanbut in front of the soap opera Virgin River.

Even in its third chapter, this teen drama atypical has not lost its liveliness and originality, on the contrary. It’s always so funny, charming and written with finesse.

Finally a comedy for the general public that talks about sexual or ethnic diversity without it looking like a moral lesson or a Radio-Canada radio segment.

Teens and their allies (hello!) deserve this type of quality television, which speaks their language and intertwines so-called light subjects with heavier issues such as sexual humiliation, the disappearance of a parent or the weight of traditions. from an immigrant family.

In each of the 10 half-hours, the viewer never feels that the screenwriters are passing on pseudo-educational messages. The intrigues, airy as deep, unfold effectively between a sharp gag and two tonic replicas. And the tone waltzes between humor and drama, without false note or faux pas.

At the start of the third season of my first times16-year-old heroine Devi Vishwakumar is once again dating handsome Paxton Hall-Yoshida (Darren Barnet), the most coveted high school athlete in Sherman Oaks, an affluent Southern California suburb.

This was the goal Devi set for himself at the very beginning of the series: chill with the gang cool, have a hot boyfriend and get into Princeton University. Devi soon realizes that dating the hottest guy in school won’t magically erase all her problems.

The Canadian actress who plays Devi, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, has an incredible sense of comedy. Even more formidable: the teenage character she defends wears different masks, which allows the young actress to show the extent of her register. There’s the sarcastic, drooling, ultra-confident Devi. There is the Devi greatly affected by the sudden death of her dad. There is the worried and selfish Devi, who throws her anxieties in the face of her shrink.

There is the Devi who lives in an Indo-American household with her mother Nalini (less and less strict), her grandmother Nirmala, very attached to her culture, as well as her cousin, also in search of emancipation. . All the Devi coexist in harmony in this multi-ethnic and multi-generational universe.

Devi’s friends, scientist Fabiola and theater artist Eleanor, also have heart problems. Ben, Devi’s ‘rivalfriend’, is still in the orbit of the girl trio and a third suitor, the handsome Nirdesh, will scramble our beloved Devi’s sentiment radar.

The icing on the sundae my first times remains the narration of almost all episodes by John McEnroe. Yes, yes, John McEnroe, the legendary tennis player. Its tone as detached as invested adds even more color to this lovely rainbow series.

Settlers in the Gaspé!

It’s the return of the colony inspector (Louis Champagne), the mud, bugs and rudimentary tools! Huge success on the Historia channel in 2017, the reality show The devil’s lot will hit the airwaves again on Friday, November 11 with new adventures seasoned with Gaspésie salt.

After the wood, the competitors-settlers of the Devil’s Bundle – The Conquest of the Sea will now survive near a Paspébiac fishing bank in the 1930s. Prize to be won: $100,000. And no question of relying on current conveniences, because all the challenges will run like in the time of the Great Depression.

Also at Historia, two new Quebec productions will enhance the fall schedule, namely Village Secrets (October 26), which will talk about great secrets hidden in small villages in Quebec, as well as docufiction Hells Angels – The Fall (December 10), about the end of Maurice “Mom” Boucher’s reign of terror. It is Émile Schneider who will camp the informer Stéphane “Godasse” Gagné.

You will also see in Historia new episodes of lost in the dust (August 30), from Transmission not possible (1^er September) and Auction Fever – New Generation (October 4).

Séries Plus is keeping two Quebec TV series for the winter. The first drift of the novel High demolition by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard, with Étienne Galloy, Léane Labrèche-Dor and Irdens Exantus in the lead roles. The second is called Bombs and stars Olivia Palacci, Debbie Lynch-White, Sarah Desjeunes Rico and Julie de Lafrenière. Imagined by Kim Lévesque-Lizotte, Bombs will recount the torments of four thirty-year-olds struggling with addictions.

Still at Séries Plus, no question of touching Mondays NCIS or Tuesdays FBI. The Corus-owned specialty channel has grabbed the headlines Moonshine (August 31), red election (September 2) and 4400 (September 2), in addition to renewing its cargo of episodes of Blue Bloods, Bull, Station 19, Charmed, Last stop, the resident and An exemplary struggle.

Come on, it’s time to empty your recorders. Because brand new stock is coming soon!