Dotted with interesting surprise appearances, the televisual retrospective of the year 2021 has achieved its tour de force by keeping its winning formula, without falling into bad taste.
Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais, who had ensured the opening of “Bye Bye 2020” a year ago to the day, has once again opened the most anticipated show of the holiday season.
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Rising from the shadows, the coronavirus is indeed still alive. And as in 2020, the edition of “Bye Bye” this year, presented Friday evening on ICI Télé, was tinged with it.
Dany Turcotte, Rock et Belles Oreilles, Sarahmée, Matthieu Pepper, Claude Legault, Patrick Huard, Sébastien Delorme and Arnaud Soly, among others joined the core formed of the main actors, the same as last year: Guylaine Tremblay, Sarah- Jeanne Labrosse, Mehdi Bousaidan and François Bellefeuille.
In return, Anne Casabonne, Julie Payette, Éric Lapointe, Michael Rousseau, Justin Trudeau and Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge were skinned during mass on December 31.
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The COVID Footprint
Hats off to the sketch turned to the sauce “Les beaux malaises”, renamed for the occasion “Bye Bye les malaises”, which was able to raise the incongruities of sanitary measures, such as the curfew, fines for offenders and anti-vaccine speech.
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse as Véronique Cloutier for the sketch “Véro a Chaud”, a clever nod to docurality “Loto-Méno”, and Yannick De Martino as David Goudreault in a scene about the labor shortage, have were particularly noteworthy.
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Guylaine Tremblay, who notably personified the host of “Masked Singers”, was impressive in Dominique Ducharme.
Claude Legault, who was not due to return this year due to a professional break, reappeared as Denis Coderre hitting the wall of Montreal City Hall, as in government advertisements for vaccination, and François Legault, victim of an invasion of “wokes”, attacked with great force of systemic racism, cultural appropriation and housing crisis.
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Last year, “Bye Bye 2020” became the most watched program in Quebec of all time. With the new confinement and the curfew that began on this last evening of festivities, the “Bye Bye 2021”, written and directed by the team of Simon-Olivier Fecteau and Guillaume Lespérance, could well rank in the high ranks this year again.