A bloody recreation of the film’s Russian roulette scene The Deer Huntera meeting room named in honor of the (late) criminal lawyer Inès Saïd (Nour Belkhiria), the recovery of Ti-Bill (Jean Maheux) and the star of the daily TVA series (Sébastien Delorme) who sets social networks ablaze with his “sexy clickbait” type videos, Indefensible has pulled out huge dramatic springs to mark its big return to the small screen.
All this after last spring’s explosive finale, where M’s care Frédéric Legrand (Martin-David Peters) jumped into Old Montreal, killing him instantly and also taking away the young 27-year-old lawyer Inès Saïd. Investigator Maxime Dubois (Mathieu Baron) watched the carnage, helpless and destroyed.
The first episode of the third season ofIndefensible resumed a few seconds after this fatal explosion. The colleagues of the two prosecutors who died all hit an emotional wall, particularly Me André Lapointe (Michel Laperrière), who suffers from stage 2 colon cancer, which was fortunately eradicated thanks to an operation, snip, snip, and a few sessions of radiotherapy.
The scenes of mourning and stupor of the employees of the Lapointe, Macdonald and Desjardins law firm were strange to watch. As if they lacked naturalness and truth. It was just as uncomfortable to see police officer Max Dubois shove and shake up his lawyer friends, still shaken by the sudden disappearance of Inès and Frédéric.
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The employees of the Lapointe, Macdonald and Desjardins firm are in great shock.
As if Léo Macdonald (Sébastien Delorme) or Kim Nolin (Julie Trépanier) had something to reproach themselves for, when they had nothing to do with this attack.
It was the leader of the Cold Riders, Normand Viau (Alex Bisping), who brought Me Legrand, Inès being a collateral victim. Viau was taking revenge for another assassination ordered by the swindler Jessica Renaud (Émilie Lajoie), M’s girlfriende Legrand who then tried to end his life by slashing his wrists in his bath. Agile and pugnacious, Max Dubois managed to save the swindler Jessica so that she would pay for the cascade of unfortunate events she had triggered.
On the professional front, Léo can’t stomach – he burps old man, I might add – the fact that his comrade and former flame Marie-Anne Desjardins (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé) has crossed over to the Crown. Léo feels betrayed and humiliated, poor thing. To the point where he ordered the erasure of all traces of the Desjardins name from the firm’s communications and image, which has become Lapointe and Macdonald again, like in the first season.
It’s all babyish, and it’s getting redundant. Léo notably mocked Marie-Anne’s Couronne attitude with “her straight back and her pouty mouth”. And after removing the blue cloth that covered the plaque in memory of Inès, a moment that was meant to be emotional and solemn, but which was a slap in the face, Léo hissed at Marie-Anne: “There’s no business with crowns in our office.”
Me Sandra Biron (Marie-Laurence Lévesque) would have deserved such cavalier treatment. Not Marie-Anne, well.
Two new cases were introduced in this first week ofIndefensible back to school. The first concerns star chef Adam Benoit (Guillaume Cyr), who allegedly stabbed his partner Agnès (Catherine Bérubé) to death in the cellar of their restaurant. Adam and Agnès appear together on TV and contribute to a popular Ricardo-style recipe website.
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Guillaume Cyr in Indefensible
This bloody murder, of which Adam does not remember a crumb, covers up a case of domestic female violence that would not have been denied With beating heart from Radio-Canada.
The second case revolves around two roommates Mathieu (Félix-Antoine Duval) and Fayed (Sam Ghez). Mathieu collects guns and received a Smith 38 with a five-shot cylinder from an old uncle.
Fascinated by Robert De Niro in The Deer Huntergraphic designer Fayed replayed, we don’t really know why, the Russian roulette scene from the classic film by grabbing the revolver, which was loaded, without Mathieu knowing it. Click, pow, the bullet killed him instantly.
Existential question: who will cover these two trials now that the intrepid reporter Joachim “Josh” Dufour (Mikhail Ahooja) has gone into exile in Quebec to mourn Inès?
The case of sisters Romane (Catherine St-Laurent) and Jade Blais (Léa Pilotte) deserved a good update. It was fuzzy in my memory who had killed whom, how and in what circumstances. And who was the rapist pimp who operated in a suburban basement?
Finally, a moratorium should be imposed on sequences where characters drink 40-ounce bottles of beverages from the bottleneck on Quebec television. Christophe L’Allier (Roy Dupuis) did this in With beating heart. Chef Adam (Guillaume Cyr) also downed a bottle of vodka in Indefensible. Even emergency physician Jacob Faubert (Lou-Pascal Tremblay) has indulged in excessive consumption of strong STAT.
According to Statistics Canada, Quebecers consume an average of 9.4 glasses of alcohol per week, for a total of 8.3 litres of pure alcohol per year. In three short episodes, Christophe, Adam and Jacob clearly shattered the average, as if it were the cork of a common bottle of Codorniu.
I levitate
With Asbestos, by Sébastien Dulude
A little bit of The Body by Stephen King, a touch of Jean-Christophe Réhel and here is an astonishing 224-page coming-of-age novel set in Thetford Mines, a fireproof town of asbestos, gray dumps and the adventures of two kids from the Mitchell neighborhood. Steve Dubois, 9 years old, the author’s alter ego, furiously falls in love with little Poulin, 10 years old. Written with remarkable precision, the story – inspired by the writer’s childhood – oscillates between the summer of 1986 and that of 1991 and is marked by Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana and a memorable visit to the Vox Pop box office in MusicPlusIt is a book that is both very hard, which speaks of depression and violence in a hostile environment, and super gentle, for the brilliance and purity of the bond that unites two children who are discovering life.
I avoid it
The narration at Double occupancy: Mexico
When Alicia Moffet announces: “previously, at Double occupancy “, it’s fine, the sound is clear and precise. When Fred Robichaud says the same sentences, it sounds like he’s speaking in Bonhomme Carnaval’s head. Wouldn’t it be possible to adjust the sound levels of the co-host’s segments? Or simply re-record the tracks livelike? It would be important to “read the room”, thank you.