There are pressing questions to be answered about the deliberately ambiguous finale ofBefore the crash and the whistleblower alert, who screams here like a washed-up banker on the roof of the Caisse de dépôt et placement, orders latecomers to immediately leave this fascinating discussion.
It’s good ? Let’s chat between insiders. So, what could we read on the face of François (Émile Proulx-Cloutier), posted at the window of his recovery center, when he saw Marc-André (Éric Bruneau) with his son Denis in his arms? Was he boiling? Was he hatching (another) plan to punish his ex-wife Évelyne (Karine Vanasse)?
Another nebulous thing to elucidate: Marc-André and Évelyne, who have always felt a strong attraction to each other, are they a couple? When he refused to resign from the Olstrom firm, Marc-André clearly told Évelyne that he loved her.
The answers, now, provided by Kim Lévesque Lizotte, the co-writer with Éric Bruneau of this excellent Radio-Canada television series. First of all, no, François was not planning a murder and he did not become a psychopath.
“Francois is troubled, he is confused. He wonders what Évelyne and Marc-André are doing together. We let the idea float that he feels betrayed,” confides Kim Lévesque Lizotte.
Then, no, Marc-André and Évelyne are not dating. “They reconciled. We understand that Marc-André is there for Évelyne, but they are in a period of uncertainty. What interested us was to show Évelyne’s view of Marc-André and her baby Denis. Could his future look like this? Was she wrong? », continues Kim Lévesque Lizotte.
Éric Bruneau and Kim Lévesque Lizotte are currently brainstorming ideas to concoct a third season ofBefore the crashwhich will not be on the air before 2025, we will have to wait.
The two authors asked Radio-Canada for more time to do further research and develop the quests of their complex and fallible characters. “It requires some reflection. What do we want to say about our society? We also want to stay in tune with the times,” notes Kim Lévesque Lizotte, who was also crowned on Monday the big winner of the musical game The fan war on the airwaves of Noovo. Big night for her!
I really liked this second season ofBefore the crash, a modern work, punched, researched and unfolded in the form of a socio-financial thriller. Émile Proulx-Cloutier (give him a Gemini!) was fantastic as a violent man, who plummeted to the bottom of the barrel, to the point of kidnapping his own child.
François’ parents, played by Normand Chouinard and Dorothée Berryman, allowed us to explore the roots of his all-consuming ambition, which hid deficiencies, chronic insecurity and an unhealthy desire to please (his father). The intrigues surrounding François, who lost everything this fall, were the most impactful ofBefore the crash 2.
Despite his good deeds (on the surface) and his saving side, Marc-André was “one of the worst” of the quartet, recalls Kim Lévesque Lizotte.
Marc-André just thinks about himself. He always justifies his actions in relation to very noble things. He’s selfish.
Kim Lévesque Lizotte
Marc-André’s mother, played by Annick Bergeron, reminded him of this before flying to Florida with the man she “crossed at cards”, according to Marc-André. This aspect of illegal gambling at the seniors’ residence was tasty.
In this tenth and final episode, the confrontation scene where Évelyne garlanded Marc-André in the park was epic. Frozen at the Concerta, drugged by performance stress, Évelyne became, like Marc-André, the worst version of herself. Lesson to learn? Power corrupts, no matter the gender of the person sitting in the boss’s chair.
After burnout and near-divorce, likeable Patrick got a happy ending worthy of his best trip magic mushrooms. He and his wife Marie-Michèle (Myriam Fournier) sold everything to settle in the Far North, a family project postponed in the first season, which had caused a painful divide in the couple.
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Marc-André (Éric Bruneau) and Florence (IRELAND Côté)
The rich Vincent (Benoit Drouin-Germain) has also come back on track. Of showerbag on the party perpetual in Mont-Tremblant, he ended his season by saving the food bank where his daughter-in-law Florence (Ireland Côté) was doing her community work.
Be careful, Vincent was not beatified by the two screenwriters either. We understood that he slept with the philanthropist Isabelle (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman), a final way of taking revenge on his friend Marc-André, who had bet on his father’s (Marc Messier) life insurance.
There were some very nice secondary characters in Before the crashincluding those of the conscience-raising millennial Clara (Valérie Tellos), the lawyer in redemption mode Dominique (Marie-France Marcotte) and the director Michel Taschereau (Pier Paquette), who finally intertwined his personal life with his work.
A suggestion, in closing, for Before the crash 3 ? Maybe get rid of the narration made by banker Marc-André. These monologues weigh down the story and sometimes sound a little preachy. As if we were hearing Catherine Dorion speaking to Everybody talks about it about the sixth mass extinction and the ravages of neoliberalism. Sigh, eye roll.