Every Monday at 8 p.m., I get on my broom, like the green lady in The Wizard of Ozand I go to Sainte-Piété to venerate the horned god and drink blessed water of eternal light.
If this sentence sounds like gibberish, or a line from Ti-Bill in Indefensibleis that you have not been bewitched – without calm and without ever rest – by the new TVA soap opera, which immerses us in a very bizarre sect/commune in the fictional village of Sainte-Piété, in the Cantons of -ballast.
There are many layers of secrets in Witches and it is normal that the authors Germain Larochelle and Marie-Josée Ouellet slowly thread the pearls on the necklace of their plot.
The pleasure of following this dense soap opera lies in the anticipation and construction of personal, but rigorously documented, theories on the rest of the story.
For example, where is the famous aunt Isabelle hiding, who forged the false identity papers of two of the witches of the show’s title, the holistic Agnès (Noémie O’Farrell) and the pragmatic Beth (Marie-Joanne Butcher) ?
Why does the village postman, the mustachioed and disturbing Fred (Maxime Genois), spy on the former members of the sect thanks to the numerous cameras he screws everywhere? It’s really strange and maniacal behavior.
Nostradumas still suspects that the baby of Joe (Céline Bonnier) and Luc (Stéphane Gagnon) is not dead, despite the scenes of his cremation which have been rolling for 12 weeks, and that it could be the redheaded reporter Rémi (David Noël ) from Journal The city-dweller. The hair color of the characters Witches is not a coquetry. It is part of the story, let’s not forget the redhead toddler abandoned at the foot of the Sainte-Piété falls, and whose parents have not been found.
On this, we could relaunch the AMBER alert and close this mystery file which is dragging on. It’s long. That and the motivations of Cassandre (Joanie Martel) and Darius Boileau (Guillaume Tremblay), who refuse to provide their DNA to the police because their blood and saliva are of inestimable purity. “If we want to become elected officials, we don’t give our DNA,” pleaded Darius, returning from his shift at the local hospital.
The Boileau family is part of the Mission of the Eternal Light and the link with the sect led by the intense Louise (Alexa-Jeanne Dubé) and the alcoholic guru Armand Bussières (Olivier Lamarche) has not been clearly established. Except for Wicca, the spiritual movement that guides these two groups of hippies.
Many readers still have difficulty associating the version from the 1990s with the contemporary version of the central figures of Witches. Here is the recap. In the past, Manon, Beth’s mother, is played by Larissa Corriveau, aka Roy Dupuis’ suicide and HIV-positive sister in All the life. In 2023, the same Manon is played by Louise Laparé, whose character lives in a psychiatric institute.
Besides, why was Manon’s guardianship entrusted to the taciturn Gaétane (Hélène Grégoire), about whom we know nothing except that she loves video lottery and colorful cocktails? Very intriguing.
Another point to clarify: is the famous Louise, who overlooks the triple goddess (Hecate, Selene and Artemis), still alive? Joe’s mother only appeared in flashbacks, never in the present. Same thing for Sandrine, Agnès’ mother: where is she hiding? Certainly not with Gaia.
The family of Mayor Véronique Roy (Julie Roussel) has some big surprises in store for us, I think. His last supper was extremely tense. Véronique, Beth’s half-sister, has never forgiven her mother Manon (her again!) for having abandoned her and her brother Colin, who killed himself. And what does the suffering Camil (Roger La Rue) want to confide to his former wife Manon (still her!), whom he refused to take back home after the dissolution of the commune?
The Alain Leclerc affair (Jean-Marc Dalphond), now. I felt like I had missed an episode when the name of this radio host made our valiant journalist Joe Bussières shiver. We had seen him only once, in a report that aired on the newspaper’s television. Alain Leclerc then left the courthouse. Those who blinked, like me, missed it.
TVA relays the mid-season finale of Witches Monday evening and let us pray in a place full of divine energy so that we understand why Alistair (Léopold Lafontaine) mutilates himself and why Sandrine was beaten in the red cabin, for the love of the child of the new day.
I levitate
With The Real Housewives of Miami
Am I the only one following their adventures filled with drama and glam? As a brain drain reality show goes, it’s hard to beat. These bejeweled brides party on yachts, throw daiquiris in each other’s faces, bicker about their shaky marriages, live in super cheesy neo-rococo palaces, wear outfits with visible moon logos, speak in “Spanglish” » and indulge in high-end gossip. Marysol, who drinks from morning to night, steals the show. Episodes play on the Slice TV cable channel or on the Hayu platform, if you want to add a 14e paid subscription to your wallet.
I avoid it
The Miami ghetto, in If we loved each other
We don’t leave Julie like that in a corner! Especially in the Miami ghetto, let’s see. Julie saw some CSI: Miami, and she knows what happens to women abandoned in a $45,000 tank. Honestly, I didn’t understand anything about the stormy relationship between Julie and Luc If we loved each other. Julie is in love with Luc. Then, Julie hates Luc and calls him a moron. Two seconds later, Julie smiles and irons Luc’s shirt (isn’t he capable of doing it at 49?). It all ends with a lascivious dance and Julie asks the killer question: are you fucking my ass? Incomprehensible as a route.