From Degrassi to Lou and Sophie

For people of my generation, TV shows that dealt with coming of age or teenage boredom have left their mark on our developing brains forever.

There have been Degrassi with Joey Jeremiah and the Rabid Zits, there was Watatatow with Chicoine and Marc-Antoine, without forgetting, in a more psychotronic register, the daily soap opera Campus, that the CFCF station was filming in Kirkland under the title of Time of Your Life.

It is also one of the founding dramas of my life as a young teenager: I never knew how Campus was ending. TVA broadcast this badly dubbed series for two consecutive summers and then poof, nothing. What happened with blonde Charlie, the Sun King sect, James the haired Apollo, Laura the coke and Mickey the alcoholic? Don’t turn the iron in the wound, I have no idea 30 years later. Misery.

Today’s tweens have replaced Rooms in town by more modern productions like The cottage, The academy, Six degrees, Jeremiah, Clash, The complicated life of Léa Olivier Where The slip. In recent seasons, these shows have taken a tangent Riverdale, without however reaching the status of Sex Education orEuphoria, every parent’s waking nightmare.

Just think of the very good series The little kings of the Tou.TV Extra, that you have surely “binge” without “skip” anything, yo.

This niche halfway between youth and classic soap opera is super important. It is at this tender age that we experience our emotions to the fullest and that we forge lasting memories.

Hence this unhealthy obsession for Campus, where high school students practically smoked crack cocaine with their brains out.

This is what brings us to Lou and Sophie, the latest “teen drama” type offering which will be released on Thursday, December 2 on the Tou.TV Extra. It’s really very good, especially thanks to the talent of the two main performers, Jade Charbonneau (All the life, The blue Hour, 5^e Rank) and Zeneb Blanchet (Audrey came back, All the life). Their respective careers continue to soar.

17-year-old Lou (Jade Charbonneau) and Sophie (Zeneb Blanchet), the best friends in the world, decide to take a sabbatical between the end of high school and their entry into CEGEP. They smoke “weed”, swear, steal things from the convenience store, drink coffee and pepper their sentences with English expressions like “fucking anything”, insane or “you get out of my live tank there”.

The two teenage girls dream of leaving their flat suburbs to live strong, strong. But how ? With a car vintage (an old Cadillac) which they pay $ 1000 and which they baptize Dolorès.

A car of their own, dreams in the shovel and the freedom of the coming summer, everything falls into place so that Lou the sarcastic and Sophie the dreamer live in a John Hughes film.

But reality will catch up with them. A latent conflict between Lou and his mother, Caroline (Sophie Cadieux), worsens. And it goes back a long way. Sophie suffers from the absence of her own mother, whom she has not seen for 15 years.

Written by Yannick Éthier (The cottage, The academy), Lou and Sophie explores with acuity and realism this period stuck between adolescence and adulthood, when everything seems possible… but not so much. It is a pivotal moment, which is accompanied by experiments, good or bad choices as well as disappointments.

TV series Lou and Sophie, who also carried the titles of Dolores and Giants, has six one-hour episodes. The first two balance the drama well with the lighter elements of the story. The character of the potter at Fafard (Lévi Doré) is really interesting. A drug dealer who reads The boys club by Martine Delvaux and who paints in her spare time, it breaks several stereotypes. To watch with family or with your BFF, like.

The effect Masked singers

The growing popularity of the competition Masked singers affects all of TVA’s Sunday programming. Sunday evening, the musical mascot contest captivated 1,623,000 viewers, one of its best scores of the fall.

Right after, Revolution gathered 1,291,000 followers and JMP kept 825,000 on the air. Honestly, I expected the comedian’s special to tumble in the ratings. But no. The fans of Jean-Marc Parent remain loyal to him.

At Radio-Canada, the audience of Everybody talks about it dropped to 766,000 people, while the 90-minute show ofDouble occupation was watched by 500,000 curious people.

The grand finals of OD and Masked singers will face each other on Sunday at 6.30 pm Who from Inès, Stevens, Robin, Marilou, the Wedding Owl, the Black Turkey or the Inseparable will save themselves with great honors? Both on Noovo and TVA, the masks will finally fall.