Drop series and watch the world burn

I’ve started three promising streaks in the past few days and I won’t finish any of them.

Like a Xavier Dolan taking refuge in his architect’s house, built in the countryside, where else?, I will watch these prestigious works burn in indifference, without remorse or regret, Stephan Eicher would surely sing.

And I feel (lunch) at peace with this decision. The planet is on fire, the lucid Dolan reminded us, why waste time on mid-caliber shows, huh?

The three culprits of the “well, you know” attitude are called full-circle (Loop) of Crave and Super Ecran, Platonic (Platonic) of Apple TV+ and Love & Death (love and death), also on Crave.

Oops, I broke my own three episode rule by dumping Love & Death at the second hour. Good evening, good evening, she’s gone. This dark comedy-drama, created by the brilliant David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, The Lincoln Lawyer), derives from a news item that shook Texas on Friday, June 13, 1980.

Devoted mother and desperate wife, Candy Montgomery, 30, then killed with an ax – 41 blows, to be precise – the wife of her lover, who was also her best friend.

The tone of Love & Death swings between madmen, Dahmer And Desperate Housewives without ever clinging firmly. It really is a strange series, populated by bizarre characters, who perform incongruous actions. Positive point: the main actress, Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the famous twins Mary-Kate and Ashley of Full housedelivers a great performance.

Negative note: a miniseries on the same subject, candy, was launched last year on Disney+ with Jessica Biel in this same role of mad housewife of the axe. Yes, I married a murderess, again, to paraphrase Mike Myers in a classic 1993 movie.

My expectations for Platonic were similar to those of Xavier Dolan for his American film The Death & Life of John F. Donovan : very high.

I wanted so badly to love this just-enough-vulgar and-cynical adult rom-com from the Apple TV+ platform, which stars two great comedic actors, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne.

Alas, this umpteenth version of When Harry Met Sallywhich explores the friendship between a heterosexual man and woman, does not revolutionize this well-known genre, but wins a few smiles thanks to the talent of the two main performers, who have already played a couple in the film Neighbors by Nicholas Stoller, who is directing the ten episodes of Platonic.

Platonic follows Sylvia (Rose Byrne), a preppy lawyer who gave up her career to raise her three kids in the suburbs, and her college best pal Will, a snobbish teenager who opened a cool microbrewery in downtown Los Angeles.

Overwhelmed mom in Ann Taylor clothes, hairy old hipster with an electric scooter, you can already see the rather clichéd dynamic between Sylvia and Will, who have been at odds since Will married a 26-year-old young woman whom Sylvia hated.

When Will’s marriage collapses, Sylvia hopes to reconnect with her BFF and rediscover the carelessness of before her monotonous life alongside a too-perfect husband (Luke Macfarlane). Unsurprisingly, Sylvia and Will will support each other through their respective midlife crises.

Brief, Platonic turns out to be a nifty and charming sitcom with dialogue riddled with pop culture references. Still, it’s deja vu, so predictable and agreed.

Now the thriller full-circle (Loop) by director Steven Soderbergh, which comes out Thursday on Crave and Friday at 9 p.m., in French, on Super Ecran. The first episode of this long, confusing and disheveled film noir poorly plants the three distinct and independent stories that will intersect, not divulgely, along the way. All against a backdrop of African occult rites, yes.

First, there is a couple of Manhattan sores, played by Claire Danes and Timothy Olyphant, whose teenage child has just been kidnapped.

The missing child’s grandfather is played by Dennis Quaid, a well-known Ricardo-style media boss, who wears a rat tail like Tedros in The Idolwhat is this ridiculous hair fashion?

At the same time, in the Queens district, the queen of Guyanese organized crime, M^me Mahabir, hopes to avenge the death of her husband and thus break a cycle of bad luck that has been befalling her family for years. Then, in the third installment, a relentless postal service inspector, who thinks she’s a star FBI investigator, plunges her nose into a life insurance fraud that everyone hates, even her boss.

Over the course of the episodes, the three parts of full-circle will come together to form a coherent loop, the references to the circle here being anything but subtle. Like the ransom demanded for the captured teenager, which amounts to $314,159, the first digits of the number pi.

I saw the first four episodes – of the six – of fullcircle, this is sufficient to evaluate its circumference. In the ray of suspense, full-circle rotates slowly on its axis and would have benefited from making a few ellipses.