African dynamism
Taking a new and positive look at Africa through the portrait of its youth, this is the happy ambition of Raed Hammoud with his new documentary series for TV5. Tomorrow Africa, it is thus the wealth of ten major cities of the continent highlighted thanks to the countless artistic, environmental, social and scientific initiatives which are supported by the generations of today and tomorrow. In Ivory Coast, for example, the columnist and presenter who, let us emphasize, grew up in Niger, shows us the current cultural and intellectual ferment, particularly in music, humor, visual art and ecological transition. , despite the political instability that shook it in the early 2000s. If it is not the capital of this West African country, Abidjan is nevertheless an important crossroads “where everything is possible” and “ where nothing is lost and everything is transformed” thanks to a much more spontaneous relationship with time than in the West according to Cynthia Colney, one of the artists met by Raed Hammoud.
Fact, Tomorrow Africa is a fascinating and very instructive production, with an otherwise hyper-polished aesthetic, which pulverizes the miserabilist clichés too often put forward in the media to reveal to viewers all the resilience, dynamism and plurality of the youngest continent in the world . Finally, note that Raed Hammoud signs Princes in New York, the theme song of his documentary series, under the pseudonym Sael in collaboration with the artist Ya Cetidon, originally from Congo-Brazzaville. Additionally, all tracks heard in Tomorrow Africa come from local artists and are clearly displayed on screen.
Tomorrow Africa
TV5, Fridays, 8 p.m., from October 13
On the United States side
Last Stop Larrimahthe documentary by Thomas Tancred (Rooster & Butch) for HBO, takes us to Australia in this small remote community in the Northern Territory where eleven people live, each as eccentric as the next. Things get intriguing when Paddy Moriarty and his dog Kellie disappear into the wild after a night at the pub in 2017… As they are quickly pronounced dead, each of Larrimah’s residents becomes suspects. But what is it really?
Smoking kills and this has never been more true than with the scandal caused by a small electronic cigarette company that became a wealthy multinational. The Netflix documentary miniseries Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul therefore returns to the dazzling destiny of Juul which promoted and sold its products under the guise of public health and war on the tobacco industry. Marketing that worked so well that even children began vaping the equivalent of entire packs of cigarettes per day, causing an epidemic of addiction and lung cancer.
Still on Netflix, but in fiction this time, Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) revisits the work of Edgar Allan Poe with the dramatic and horrific series The Fall of the House Usher. The scandal, however, is not very far away. We follow Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days) and Mary McDonnell (Dancing with the wolves) as twin siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher who are at the head of a corrupt pharmaceutical empire and who are exposed for their sordid secrets by the character played by Carla Gugino (Budding spies) .
Also highly anticipated, the series by Lee Eisenberg (The Office) for Apple TV+ Lessons in Chemistry immerses us in the patriarchal and misogynistic America of the mid-20th centurye century where we meet Elizabeth Zott, an aspiring chemist who is fired from her laboratory while she is pregnant. Performed by Brie Larson (Room), she will use the cooking show for which she has just been hired as host to convey, not without humor, an emancipatory message to the housewives who follow her on television.
Last Stop Larrimah
Crave and HBO, Sunday, October 8 at 9 p.m.
Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul
Netflix, from October 11
The Fall of the House Usher
Netflix, from October 12
Lessons in Chemistry
Apple TV+, from October 13