After the brilliant series Can you hear me ?Télé-Québec pulls out another gem from its safe, namely seem to goa comedy-drama that follows four young adults with cystic fibrosis.
Wow, it’s jojo, all that! Four patients, including one who dies at the end of the first episode, is the ideal remedy to soften the harshness of current Quebec television, be ironic while sipping your almond milk latte. Pfft.
Put away this caustic cynicism, readers of little faith. Despite its heavy subject matter, seem to go overflows with humor, tenderness and truth. It’s far from being sad The red wristbands VAT, let’s say. It’s touching, without being corny, it’s poignant, without being unnecessarily tearful, and it’s very funny, yes, yes.
Télé-Québec has already posted the excellent first episode on its website on Monday. On traditional TV, seem to go will play Thursdays at 9 p.m. starting March 23.
Before diving into the plot, a few words about the author of seem to goJean-Christophe Réhel, 33-year-old poet and novelist, who published the beautiful semi-autobiographical book What we breathe on Tatouinein 2018.
His texts contain a lot of sensitivity, self-mockery and references to popular culture such as The Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz or Harry Potter. “Hermione is a bitch,” even complained one of the main characters.
Jean-Christophe Réhel, a screenwriter to put on your radar, also lives with cystic fibrosis. His lungs are functioning at 50% of the capacity of those of a healthy person. He injected several plots of his own life into the four protagonists of seem to gowho form a very endearing quartet aware of the sword of Damocles that threatens them all.
Katrine (Catherine St-Laurent), eccentric and outgoing, awaits a lung transplant. If she does not receive them within five months, she will die. Driven by a dazzling urgency to breathe, Katrine will lead her comrades into a bundle of madness and nonsense.
“I want to live, I want to take advantage of every half second,” pleaded Katrine, who refuses to be pitied.
It starts with a trip magic mushrooms – hello STAT – in the first episode, organized by the impulsive tattoo artist Gabriel (Antoine Olivier Pilon), who has practically no symptoms of his lung disease.
The shy Jimmy (Joakim Robillard), he spits blood and falls into the category of hypochondriacs. He hates his job at the dairy bar Le Cornet Polaire. The devoted Cindy (Noémie Leduc-Vaudry) is going through a complicated family situation, especially with her cancerous dad (Vincent Graton). On the heart side, it’s the desert. But Cindy never gives up, both with guys and girls.
In episode three, the foursome travel to Vermont to purchase an illegal drug that would prolong Katrine’s life. This road trip morphs into a multi-sensory experience that involves sex toys, a funeral dress, and meeting CocoChanel69. As for the rich soundtrack, it oscillates between Where Is My Mind Pixies, Shades of Dusk death metal and times are crazy by Daniel Belanger.
Each episode of seem to go also contains a short danced segment, which represents the recovery, by the four heroes, of their bodies which let them go gently. It looks weird on paper, but these poetic scenes fit neatly into this story of emancipation, the good old “coming of age”.
seem to go aptly illustrates how cystic fibrosis hampered the personal ambitions and romantic journey of our four friends. These young people are 25 to 30 years old and mostly live with their parents. The disease, which is still incurable, caused their life line to branch off.
In addition to the central quartet, seem to go brings together gifted actors like Anick Lemay, Marc Béland, Sylvie Moreau, Denis Bernard and Iannicko N’Doua.
Gossip plateau, in closing. A comedian cannot cough on command and realistically, as he cries or laughs. Director Sarah Pellerin therefore recorded real wet coughs and crackling breaths of sick people to add them to the sound montage and thus create the perfect illusion.
Really, seem to go breathes beauty and goodness into our TV.
Sun, sun!
Is it the effect of the time change and the sun which set later? Sunday ratings, always high in winter, declined as spring approached.
One thing is certain, it is not the Oscars ceremony, watched on average by 343,000 people, between 8 p.m. and midnight on CTV, which has turned the ecosystem upside down.
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Nathalie Simard, in Get me out of here!
TVA retains the leading position with Get me out of here!which gathered 1,342,000 fans in front of their post. The voice performed less well with its 1,206,000 curious people. It must be said that the battle songs stage is the least thrilling of the competition. Sunday’s direct should go up the figures of the TVA tele-hook.
At Radio-Canada, 776,000 faithful took communion at the Mass of Everybody talks about it while 571,000 followers prayed that the raccoon-thief would not return to Big Brother Celebrities.