What should be seen on ICI TOU.TV Extra, Club Illico and VRAI? To catch up on content, The Press and its journalists suggest some ideas.
walk-in 2 (ICI TOU.TV Extra)
Compared to the first chapter, walk-in 2 is funnier, more punchy, more effective and better controlled by the scriptwriter. The characters of the Lafontaine sexual health clinic, always immersed in comical situations, gain in depth while sending finely sharpened replicas. It’s pure happiness TV, akin to what the always excellent author Isabelle Langlois (Let go).
Hugo Dumas
guys 3 (ICI TOU.TV Extra)
Guys is not at all a series where reactionary fifties claim a “safe space” to complain in their bourgeois comfort. Rather, it’s a fun, raw, and realistic observation of the ravages of aging. The third season turns out to be the most comical, the best collected and the most punchy.
Hugo Dumas
The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up (Illico Club)
PHOTO FRED GERVAIS, PROVIDED BY CLUB ILLICO
Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Éric Bruneau, Anne Dorval and Xavier Dolan, in The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up
There’s acting talent per square inch in The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up. There are also extraordinary moments in Laurier Gaudreault, but also something soft and superfluous, like the fictional terrors that the characters experience. Nothing but a scissoring in the scenario, as well as another blow on the accelerator, would not have settled.
Hugo Dumas
Paradise Motel (Illico Club)
So, Paradise Motel is it worth the price of a reservation? No, if you love conventional “Scandinavian noir” crime thrillers. Yes if you like TV, how to say, particular and esoteric.
Hugo Dumas
children’s collectors (TRUE)
The testimonies of perverts and victims contained in the powerful documentary series children’s collectors by Paul Arcand make us crave chemical castration, really. This foray into “sextortion” and cyberpedophilia is very hard to see, be warned. It’s very well done, but go for it in small doses rather than in bursts.
Hugo Dumas
Legacy quibbles (TRUE)
Boring, the profession of notary? Not according to this half-documentary, half-fiction series, which presents succession stories that turn sour. Each episode is composed of reconstructions (with actors, such as Annie Charland, Elkahna Talbis and Ralph Prosper) interspersed with comments and explanations from specialists, including Me Michel Beauchamp, a notary with 33 years of experience. The mixture of genres is of some interest and certainly makes the subject matter less dry.
Marc-Andre Lemieux