A sweep in Witches

Warm up your nettle tea and take out your Hecate wheel, because it’s time to sweep away the teeming intrigues of the soap opera Witches at TVA, a question of untangling this mysterious knot which strangles the tumultuous village of Sainte-Piété.

And no need to worship the horned god to illuminate the story of these three half-sisters, who carry the traumas of their childhood spent in the Kingdom of the triple goddess. Just call the co-author of the series, Germain Larochelle, who promises viewers that they will get answers to their many questions in the coming weeks.

“Yes, we brought in a lot of business, we opened a lot of doors, which we are starting to close. It’s dense, Witches. There’s a lot of stock and it requires concentration, I admit. The first year was tricky, because there were a lot of elements to place,” confides Germain Larochelle, who signed the texts for Witches with Marie-Josée Ouellet (The escape).

Ambitious and dense TV novel, Witches opened a host of files, without ever closing them. Result: the accumulation of unresolved intrigues sows confusion among followers, buried by so many unresolved enigmas.

To clarify all of this, let’s go back to the common thread that connects all the characters in Witches, as in the psychopath painting pinned up in the messy living room of journalist Joe (Céline Bonnier). First point to clarify: who abandoned the red-haired baby at the foot of the falls?

The investigation by the Sainte-Piété police is stalling, while pyrography symbols are burning lawns and esoteric-violent telephone messages are piling up in voicemail boxes. “All this will be explained and there will be no more ambiguity by the end of the year. People will not be disappointed,” assures Germain Larochelle.

Could the visionary Louise (Alexa-Jeanne Dubé), who we have still not seen in the present, be the one who calls for the commune to meet?

Louise, let’s not forget, is Joe’s mother and it is she who represents the famous “witch’s knot”. Her ex-husband, Armand Bussières (Olivier Lamarche), was the horned god.

Second thing to explore: Is Charlot, the child of Joe and Luc (Stéphane Gagnon), still alive or was he cremated, then buried, during the time of the sect? Before the holiday break, a flashback showed Charlot unconscious in the arms of guru Armand, who had started a fire with his cigarette. The baby was obviously dead and we even saw his funeral ritual. On the other hand, when Joe and Luc dug up the box supposedly containing Charlot’s remains, they found nothing.

“It is impossible, for the moment, to guess whether Charlot is dead or alive,” confirms screenwriter Germain Larochelle. The theory that Charlot survived and was the redheaded journalist TownsmanRémi (David Noël), is holding up less and less, it seems.

Now, who is Fiona (Joan Hart), who has been repositioned at the heart of the story in the last two episodes? Fiona was the first wife of disciple Michael (Ryan Bommarito), before he married Beth (Marie-Joanne Boucher) at the age of 10. Joe and Luc also admitted that they had some responsibility in the death of Fiona, whose parents have not received any news since 1979, according to the private detective’s report dug up by Joe.

Hidden in the workshop, the cameras of postman Fred (Maxime Genois) also captured this confession between Joe and Luc about Fiona. By the way, it is worrying, this postman, who took a shift as a janitor at the Sainte-Piété hospital to get closer to Marie-Ève ​​(Marie-Claude Guérin), the nurse obsessed with the baby falls.

The mental health of the residents of Sainte-Piété fluctuates between levels of delirium and dementia. And I’m not talking about Manon (Louise Laparé), Beth’s poor mother who lives in a psychiatric institute.

According to author Germain Larochelle, the mayor of Sainte-Piété, Véronique Roy (Julie Roussel), is hiding a secret “that we cannot suspect”. Intriguing.

Follow Witches brings contradictory feelings. As much as we have the impression that the story is not moving quickly, there are new events piling up every Monday evening. Like the “cold case” of Armand Bussières, the appearance of the host Alain Leclerc (Jean-Marc Dalphond), the bizarre clients of Agnès (Noémie O’Farrell) and the numerous members of the triple goddess sect who are always running, which Joe seeks to the detriment of his sleep and his diet, mainly composed of smoked meat.

“The answers will come. It’s a rhythm that was hard to perfect. It will accelerate and we are heading towards surprising twists,” specifies screenwriter Germain Larochelle.

There remains indeed a lot to say about the enigmatic jogger and pickleball player, about Alistair’s eating disorders (Léopold Lafontaine), about Philippe’s shady father (Patrick Drolet) as well as about Armand’s dismemberment, whose crown was however saved from the acid bath, a big thank you to Selene, Hecate and Artemis.