The return of the Horned God, the twisted tree, the chosen one touched by fire, the new lunar triangle and Germain Houde amputated from his left foot and hidden in the woods!
The TV series Witches of TVA pulled out of his hat, no, wait, pulled out of his boiling pot the punch of autumn, even warmer than a duck breast MasterChef QuebecThe father of the three goddesses in the TVA series, the guru Armand Bussières, faked his death before fleeing and disappearing into the thick bushes of northern Ontario.
It was while tracking the terrifying Michael Walker (Ryan Bommarito), the ex-husband of her sister Beth (Marie-Joanne Boucher), that the intrepid reporter Joe Bussières (Céline Bonnier) knocked on the door of her bearded father (Germain Houde), who was never murdered and dismembered thirty years ago, as she believed.
IMAGE FROM THE BROADCAST WITCHES
Marie-Joanne Boucher
Pieces of Armand Bussières’ body had in fact been found near a barrel filled with acid and the murder of the leader of the matriarchal sect of Sainte-Piété had never been solved.
To stage Armand’s murder, his second partner Manon Lussier (Larissa Corriveau) had to saw off part of his left foot, cold, as if it were a common piece of wood. Manon then retrieved, near the twisted tree, the remains of Charlot, the deceased baby of Joe and Luc (Stéphane Gagnon), to give it to Armand.
Authors Germain Larochelle and Marie-Josée Ouellet, whose dense texts were awarded a Gémeaux prize last week, knew since the creation of Witches that Armand Bussières had survived the explosion of the commune he founded with the disturbing Louise Robinson (Alexa-Jeanne Dubé), his first wife.
“We have several twists up our sleeve, which we have been thinking about from the beginning,” says the co-writer of WitchesMarie-Josée Ouellet.
The first season introduced and placed the host of characters in this compact soap opera, who evolve in two distinct eras. That of the sect, in the early 1990s, and that of today. “Now, our plot unfolds by itself,” notes the co-author of the soap opera, Germain Larochelle.
Filled with clues and mysteries, Witches forces the viewer to conduct their own investigation and does not pre-chew the answers to our many questions.
For example, who is this famous Corinne (Véronique Chaumont), the woman who shelters Gabrielle (Jade Charbonneau), the young mother of the red-haired baby abandoned at the Sainte-Piété Falls? It’s normal not to understand everything at once, answer the authors of Witches.
What we know about Corinne is that she lives with Harlow Desgagnés (Martin Boily), the security guard at the psychiatric institute where Manon (Louise Laparé) is being treated. Let’s just say that we wouldn’t give the good (horned) god without confession to the trio formed by Gabrielle, Corinne and Harlow.
One of the toughest puzzles in the second chapter of Witches concerns the mayor of Sainte-Piété, Véronique Roy (Julie Roussel), a woman on the brink of the abyss. We discovered last spring that the father of her daughter Jade was the carpenter Luc Tougas. We also understand, by observing the “flashbacks” where her father Camil (Roger La Rue) implores her to free herself from her secret, that Véronique is hiding extremely painful and dangerous information for the precarious balance of her family.
“Véronique has several secrets, but her biggest remains the one with her father Camil, which has not yet been revealed,” says author Marie-Josée Ouellet.
In a flashback inserted into the last episode of WitchesVéronique Roy meets, in the woods, a young woman of her age, Maude, who is holding a video camera. Where is this Maude hiding in 2024 and does she have compromising VHS tapes for Mayor Véronique?
In the kingdom of the triple goddess, let’s not forget the crucial role played by Gaétane Rivard (Hélène Grégoire), Manon’s best friend. “Gaétane frequented the commune at first, but she quickly realized that things weren’t going well and she tried to bring Manon and her daughter Beth back,” explains Marie-Josée Ouellet.
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Noémie O’Farrell
Born from the same father, the alcoholic and charismatic Armand, the three heroines of Witches have different mothers. We already know Louise Robinson and Manon Lussier, but very little about Sandrine Sullivan, the mother of Agnès (Noémie O’Farrell, also noticed at the Gémeaux). It is Lynda Johnson who will play this Sandrine, who had been expelled from the commune of Sainte-Piété for obscure reasons. We will meet her in a month.
For the nosy, know that the buildings of the commune of Armand and Louise are those of a former holiday camp run by religious people, in Saint-Côme, in Lanaudière. The exterior images of the village of Sainte-Piété were filmed in Beauharnois and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, southwest of the island of Montreal.
Still on the radar for upcoming episodes: the shady redheaded journalist (David Noël) from City dwellerexploring the cult’s sterilization room and the typewriter used to type threatening messages to Hecate, Selene and Artemis.
As for the story of the kidnapping of Marie-Ève (Marie-Claude Guérin) and the baby Clovis/William by the crazy postman Fred (Maxime Genois), it is coming to an end. In Witcheslike in a popular song, all the cries and SOSs go into empty cans and Marie-Ève hopes that we can read through them.
I levitate
The eighth season of Selling Sunset on Netflix
Yes, it’s a completely scripted, often poorly acted reality show. No, we don’t believe for a second that these Amazon agents are selling $38 million homes while pulling each other’s extensions. But yes, we shed tears when Jason and Mary’s dog Niko dies and his owners throw him a royal funeral. Is it pointless as a show? Totally. And is it entertaining as a content? Absolutely. There are expensive clothes, adultery, gossip, cronyism, overly cheerful music, flashy cars roaring through the Hollywood Hills and that’s all we ask of this type of candy production.
I avoid it
The Return of Rybelsus
We thought we had gotten rid of that horribly poorly acted TV ad about a prescription drug that is intended for type 2 diabetics, but one of whose side effects is weight loss. But no. The Rybelsus ad comes back to haunt our evenings with its café populated by amateur actors who have to ask their doctor if Rybelsus is right for them. It is “speed” or amphetamines that must be administered to the amorphous and robotic actors of the television ad. Not Rybelsus.