Tuesday evening, ahead The red wristbands at VAT. Another excellent episode, which slipped slowly towards a bright end after some anomalies on the monitor (cardiac).
Posted at 7:15 a.m.
The doctors at the Rive hospital had discovered a varicose vein on a vein in the heart of Kim (Léanne Désilets). The delicate surgery to save her carried a 50% risk of serious complications. Since Kim is a central character in this medical series, we all thought the teenager would pull through. Especially since Kim had just shed her image of a spoiled child and the fans had (finally) adopted her in the beautiful gang of bracelets.
But no. Kim passed away on the operating table. And before her sick heart stopped beating, Kim met young Albert (Malick Babin) in the in-between world, where Justin (Noah Parker) had moved on to episode two, remember. Kim panicked: “I don’t want to die,” she told Albert, who couldn’t save her.
Then, Kim let go of the edge of the pool and drifted towards the deep side, in tears and under a light resembling moonlight. It was beautiful, poetic and touching.
In the salons of Quebec, the shock was great for the faithful. No, not Kim! She was starting to get better, see! Why are they doing this to him? “I am so happy with this reaction,” explains the director of red wristbandsYan England.
People have become attached to the characters of the series, as much the grandparents and the young people in their twenties as the teenagers. All the credit goes to the authors Michel Brouillette and Stéphanie Perreault as well as the actress Léanne Désilets, who won the affection of the public in seven weeks.
Yann England, director of red wristbands
The director continues: “If viewers were so emotional about Kim’s sudden and disturbing departure, it’s because they feel exactly what the characters in the series are going through,” he notes.
There are only three episodes left in the first chapter of the red wristbandswhich derives from the Catalan format Polseres vermelles having had two seasons. Yan England would of course like to tackle the sequel, but TVA has not confirmed anything about a possible second season of the red wristbands. Between you and me, it would be nono to torpedo such a good and unifying series, followed by more than 1 million addicts every Tuesday at 8 p.m.
A few filming secrets red wristbands, now. The Hôpital de la Rive was rebuilt in a former convent in Pierrefonds, in the west of the island of Montreal. The character of Lou (Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau), this teenager who is waiting for a kidney transplant, does not exist in the Catalan version. It was added specifically for the Quebec adaptation.
In Spain, the character of Kim is a boy. The two Quebec authors of red wristbands appear in “their” teleseries. Michel Brouillette plays physiotherapist Alain, while Stéphanie Perreault plays Marilou, Flavie’s (Audrey Roger) new shrink.
As for the special effects used to reproduce the stumps of Félix (Anthony Therrien) and Justin (Noah Parker), it is a mixture of special effects in post-production and legs hidden in holes.
And the grand finale, director Yan England describes it like the red wristbands : “Bright, with ups and downs and a roller coaster of emotions. »
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Ten years ago, the most popular daily soap opera in Quebec played on the news channels continuously. These were the hearings of the Charbonneau commission with its characters of Mr. TPS (Gilles Surprenant), Mr. Trottoir (Nicolo Milioto) and Mr. 3% (Bernard Trépanier).
Striking replies emanated from this legal soap opera led by the formidable France Charbonneau, such as “un chum, c’t’un chum” by Bernard Trépanier, “everything there is faked” by Giuseppe Borsellino, “I am not a naive person » by Gérald Tremblay as well as « I would not confirm either that I could not exclude him » by Frank Zampino, former number 2 of the City of Montreal. Also, how can we forget this mafioso who hid wads of money in his stockings and this civil servant qualified as a guidoune who received a ham for Christmas?
You will relive these inglorious events in our criminal and political history, including the stays on Tony Accurso’s yacht, in the five-part docuseries Corruption – The shocking revelations of the Charbonneau commissionwhich Bell Media’s Crave platform will go live on Friday.
It is a colossal work of research that has been accomplished in Corruption, with an impressive amount of recent testimony, archives and wiretap. The form remains classic and shattering revelations will not mark the end of the episodes. Corruption Rather, it clearly summarizes and explains how criminals have infiltrated the system for awarding public construction contracts.
And ten years later, extracts from the Charbonneau commission still strike the imagination. The tenacity of prosecutor Sonia LeBel or the expressive face of Judge Charbonneau who does not let herself be bamboozled, all classic moments that age well.