For a young woman, not wanting children, saying it loud and clear and moving on to medical sterilization is a huge taboo. Hello judging looks, three times rather than once.
Just the word that describes a woman who has never given birth is frightfully ugly: nulliparous. In the third and final season of the excellent and relevant series Fork, offered Wednesday on the free part of Tou.TV, the author and actress Sarah-Maude Beauchesne tackles this delicate subject head-on, without evasiveness.
The character she plays, the writer Sarah Milot, a fictionalized version of herself, undergoes a tubal ligation. At 30 years old. A mature and assumed decision.
“I don’t want children. My body is exhausted. He wants to feel safe, to stop fighting against nature, to be free to serve something else, all other things. I don’t want kids because I don’t want kids. It’s like that. I am like this. Worse, I won’t change my mind when I fall in love again, ”explains Sarah Milot, lying on the operating table.
This is the essence of Fork, a modern series with Fleabag which is aimed at a generation that traditional TV shuns: the twenties and thirties. It’s both funny and poignant, sad and hopeful, heartwarming and confronting.
And it slips on like a shooter. Sarah-Maude Beauchesne compresses her stories in eight short 12-minute episodes, lulled by the music of Daniel Bélanger and Marie-Jo Thério. We would gladly take extended versions in half an hour.
Forkis the nickname of Sarah Milot, the alter ego of Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, a young professional slender and pungent like a kitchen utensil. Sarah went through a relationship as passionate as it was toxic with bartender Sam (Guillaume Laurin). She dated married man Noah (Jean-Moïse Martin) and now explores the broad spectrum of his sexuality in this third chapter.
Sam is still playing in her head. But in parallel, Sarah meets the eyes of makeup artist Claire (Camille Léonard) in the dressing room of the summer talk show Sun, cloud, where she strips a courier from the heart. And her little heart is racing.
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Camille Léonard (Claire) and Sarah-Maude Beauchesne (Sarah Milot) in Fork 3
Throughout the episodes of Fork, Sarah-Maude lifts the veil on discussions that resonate more often in friends’ dinners than on conventional television. The pharmacist who judges a client who took the morning after pill three times in the same year, the men who rarely ask women what they like in bed or the beauty standards of a vulva, our favorite millennial always speaks out without filter. The nipple incident visible on the Sun, cloud is also super funny.
The great theme of Fork 3 maternity remains, or rather voluntary non-maternity. Sarah’s tubal ligation will plunge her into an existential crisis.
Is she complicating her life in order to generate material for her next books? Do we absolutely have to bear a child to be fulfilled as a woman? These intense doubts will require several glasses of light red, the fetish alcohol of this complex and uninhibited heroine.
According to screenwriter Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, there is little documentation on tubal ligatures performed on 30-year-old patients. To get it, you have to convince a doctor that this choice is final and considered, and few women talk about it publicly, notes Sarah-Maude Beauchesne.
You are so young, you will change your mind, you will regret it, don’t do this on a whim, you will understand everything the day you take your baby for the first time. That’s what those who ask questions about this irreversible surgery hear.
On a lighter note, like a natural wine not too cloudy, the aestheticism in Fork is wonderful. It’s Mélodie Wronski, who works with Jay Du Temple on Double occupation, which dresses the characters. And director Catherine Therrien (Turn, A revision) has a keen eye for beautiful furnishings, soft linens, and the perfect songs that embellish each of the scenes.
VAT domination
Masked singers and Revolution generate a lot of television traffic for TVA, which once again dominates the Sunday ratings battle. The mascot musical competition was seen by 1,556,000 people and the dance tournament was attended by 1,290,000 fans.
Immediately after, the premiere of JMP took advantage of the ripple effect with 843,000 fans of the comedian in front of their station. VAT 6 p.m. (936,000) came close to one million.
At Radio-Canada, Everybody talks about it, watched by 847,000 viewers, practically earned the same score as Jean-Marc Parent. The night of eliminationDouble occupation (562,000) did better than the Canadiens’ match (425,000), let’s go !