The investigation into the savage assault of music teacher Pierrette Granger (Louise Turcot) had been put on the stove in Reasonable doubtthe gripping and harrowing detective thriller from Radio-Canada.
The medicated cleaning man (Jacques Lussier), the teenager who uses the ATM card stolen from the victim, the sleazy nephew (Roc Lafortune) who practices the art of gluing female sexes, the list of suspects stretched and the Sex Crimes Task Force – GICCS – was swimming in muddy waters.
The investigation into the attack on the 75-year-old widow kicks into high gear on Monday night and, apply Milwaukee protocol!, you don’t want to miss this excellent episode, already available on Tou.tv’s Extra, for more curious.
It had been a long time since an extremely well-constructed hour of television had given me so many strong emotions. Stress, pity, anxiety, anger, disgust and amazement, I felt like Marie-Christine Lavoie rearranging furniture before getting on the block of Big Brother Celebrities.
No kidding, Reasonable doubt offers one of its best episodes, which ends with an immense punch, so capsizing that I yelled like a damned poor: “Come on, damn @$#%!, what’s going to happen with (name of redacted character), it just can’t be! »
Authors Annabelle Poisson, Geneviève Simard and Pierre-Marc Drouin tie up all the loose threads in this compact and breathless episode of Reasonable doubt (Monday at 9 p.m.). The arrival of a new character, a snobbish retiree (Marie-Josée Longchamps) at odds with her son, will put all the pieces of this very murky but fascinating puzzle together.
And the tension rises to an alarming level within the GICCS, as Lucie (Kathleen Fortin) threatens to expose Alice Martin-Sommer (Julie Perreault) for the murder of the madman in Henri Nelson (Tobie Pelletier).
Frédéric Masson (Marc-André Grondin) will also fall if Lucie reveals to Commander Dorcely (Benz Antoine) that her partner Alice coldly shot Nelson and that it was by no means self-defense.
Know that the GICCS has definitively classified the file of university teacher Denis Dubreuil (Jean L’Italien), the one who kept a Brazilian child prisoner in his attic worthy of a horror film. Help.
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François Avard is one of the authors of the series Happiness at VAT.
The happiness that strips
The Catholic Church populated by pedophiles, the apathy in the face of the climate crisis, the staggering cost of veterinary care or the depressing disillusionment of teachers, authors François Avard and Daniel Gagnon spoil themselves in the hard-hitting replies in Happiness since two weeks.
The two writers had promised a fiercer second season and did not lie. It hits hard. And it makes you think.
The episode of the pédocuré, broadcast last week, contained some of the harshest lines in the comedy of TVA. The half hour began with a party to celebrate the release of the pedophile priest (Patrick Goyette) from Saint-Bernard-du-Lac.
Several parishioners were bored of the good pediatrician (he served his sentence!) and accused his victims – children, we remember – of having lied to the police.
“In our time, we cashed in and lived our lives. Today, young people do not have a hard skin, ”lamented a citizen played by Sylvie Potvin. Remember, this is satire, denouncing unacceptable behavior and not the other way around.
Later, the same pediatrician was preparing to officiate a baptism by Zoom because the court forbids him to be within 300 meters of a toddler. The grandmother (Louise Bombardier) was worried about the validity and credibility of such a remote baptism. The parish priest’s response: “Me, in front of the camera, I managed to make children believe that I was one too. Credibility on the web is my domain. »
About the climate crisis that no longer moves anyone, the authors have Nancy (Myriam LeBlanc), the owner of the general store, say: “If it was serious, they wouldn’t leave it in the hands of a little air stupid like Greta Steinberg, there are adults who would take care of it. »
Wednesday evening, Happiness has scratched the teachers who have lost their vocation and who cling to their holidays and their pension funds. Returning to school to “teach education” to adults, François Plante (Michel Charette) did not come across the brightest cohort. A stay-at-home mother was breastfeeding her 12-year-old preteen and an influencer spoke in an aggressive Franglais. I want really get famous !
To one of his students who wore a niqab, François reminded that Law 21 prohibited the wearing of ostentatious religious signs in front of students. She would therefore have to remove her scarf.
“But I’m not Muslim, I’m just scary,” the student replied, revealing her face, which caused cries of fear in the classroom.
The texts by François Avard and Daniel Gagnon, who gave their first names to two main characters in the Happiness, steeped in cynicism. When they write that young people “play video games where they kill whores with baseball bats”, but that they require a beaver to give informed consent before voluntarily offering its fur to a trapper , is their caricature so far from reality?