The concept of this comic web series with “cow” humor is reminiscent of a recurring segment of the series The Appendices, entitled “Stars in the spotlight”: an “artistic” journalist, still embodied by Sonia Cordeau, received an artist who played her own role, and asked her embarrassing or inappropriate questions, which caused infinite discomfort. Cordeau finds himself among the “guest stars” of Bubbles starin addition to directing (with the help of his colleague Dave Bélisle) the six episodes of this creation by Marie-Ève Larivière.
The actress Marie-Hélène Thibault composes a delicious and devastating Gabrielle, a cynical gossip journalist, smug and eager to scoops more or less proven about the artists she receives in her “office”, a table in a rather deserted café, in the hope of creating traffic on her website. Each episode of a few minutes shows the sometimes surreal encounter, full of discomfort, between the “reporter”, always arrogant and very roughly informed, and an artist, who offers a realistic version of himself, who remains patient and tolerant, until the limits of the unbearable are reached…
Anne-Élizabeth Bossé, Élodie Grenier and Fabien Cloutier are among the brave who lend themselves to this comic exercise which requires a certain amount of self-mockery, because the gossip journalist still sometimes puts her finger on very real characteristics of these artists. , with a good dose of comic gall, except in the last episode, where she will be served her own medicine with panache. We let you discover by whom…
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