The current season of All the life at Radio-Canada is really, really very good. A major league caliber, en route to TV’s Stanley Cup, akin to a Gemini trophy.
Like my colleagues who cover the slightest upper body injury with the Montreal Canadiens, I religiously follow all Quebec soap operas. Who deserves punishment for harshness and abuse of clichés? Who inflicts a double emotional failure on us?
It is important to accompany these shows, from week to week, to check the strengths and weaknesses of each, which fluctuate over the months, such as the performance of a Cole Caufield, 20, torn between the CH and the Rocket from Laval.
At Casa Dumas, Alerts of TVA is about to be demoted to the school club. I have four weeks to catch up, and the motivation to fill that gap is scarce like good news in the Special Missing Persons Squad. It smacks of elimination, returning to the showers.
I stay up to date in The perfect moments of TVA, but I’m not throwing the towel just in the hope that this show will eventually improve its performance. For now, it’s as exciting as a hockey game between the Arizona Coyotes and the Columbus Blue Jackets.
At top of the classification, there is All the life. The quality of the stories, the steady pace and the number of overlapping plots, without getting lost, are impressive.
There is hardly anything that rolls up this fall in All the life. It’s my favorite soap opera of the hour. Marie-Labrecque’s new students always succeed in shaking us with their societal issues as complex as they are today. Starting with Rosalie (Camille Felton), the impulsive and aggressive 16-year-old who bullies the father of her unborn child, Clément (Thomas Boonen). At first glance, Rosalie irritates us and infuriates us, to put it mildly.
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Marie-Ève Beauregard and Lé Aubin play the characters of Laura and Lucas.
Author Danielle Trottier, however, has the intelligence not to invent one-dimensional characters. By delving into Rosalie’s entourage, and meeting her jaded half-sister (Claudia Bouvette), we understand better why Rosalie spits so much violence. And she is less disagreeable to us.
The case of Margaux (Tiffany Montambault) is both intriguing and sad. Does her inadequate mother (excellent Myriam Leblanc) use her uterus to repay gambling debts? It is extremely fishy. The arrival of Margaux’s uncle, who adopted her first two babies, did not reassure anyone. What a twisted business.
Same discomfort reflex for Laura (Marie-Ève Beauregard), who has an incestuous relationship with her grandfather Michel (Bernard Fortin). It feels so weird to see them exchange marks of affection, as if their “love” situation was trivial.
Laura is like Rosalie: attaching. We detect her distress and her vulnerability while having the taste to reframe her when she behaves like a bitch. Here again, we deduce that Laura is protecting herself and repressing a lot of suffering, that she throws up on others.
As for the idle Daphné (Marguerite Bouchard), cibole, will she end up igniting that her ex-boyfriend Gabriel (Mattis Savard-Verhoeven) does not want his good? Daphné is currently carrying the baby of Maxime (Antoine L’Écuyer), Gab’s brother. But Daphne still loves Gab and nothing gets her off the hook. The abandonments experienced in childhood by Daphne mark life, one must believe.
We can’t wait to see where the story of the young trans Lucas (Lé Aubin) takes us. Lucas hinted that his macho father (Mathieu Baron) also lived in the wrong body.
Everything about Christophe (Roy Dupuis), his crooked mother (Micheline Lanctôt) and his brother Patrick (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) is captivating. All the life moves forward in his story and never bores us.
Special mention to actress Marie-France Marcotte, who plays Tina’s biological mother (Hélène Bourgeois-Leclerc). She was amazing in the last episode. Truly.
SCREENSHOTS FROM NOOVO SITE
Sylvain Marcel in the last episode of Turn
A last Turn moving
Tissue Festival for the grand finale of the miniseries Turn on Noovo, Wednesday evening. What a stirring episode. The scene of medical assistance in dying, where Sylvain (Sylvain Marcel) slowly passed away while the three women of his life sang to him The sun takes to the sun, was overwhelming. Hello, uncontrollable tears.
In addition to the touching performance of Sylvain Marcel, Charlotte Aubin, Juliette Gosselin and Marie-Thérèse Fortin were also formidable.
The moments leading up to the death of the Patriarch of the Lessards were just as striking. The presentation of the gold medal to dad, the check for $ 40,000 signed for Fanny (Juliette Gosselin), the last family meal, Turn left the airwaves on sad and hopeful notes.
If you missed these eight well-crafted episodes, you will find them all over the place on Bell Media’s Crave platform. You will not regret it. Go!