Of course, the resolution of the terrible conflict between Hamas and Israel. Of course, the end of the endless war in Ukraine. Of course, the conclusion of the endless investigation about the blue subcompact car in STAT.
We all want this to be resolved by December 25, in an ideal world. Well selfishly, there are a bunch of other more realistic gifts, easy to find, that I would love to unwrap under my dry tree. And no, it’s not incense or myrrh, sorry, Balthazar, much less castor oil to rub your hands with.
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Jonathan Caron plays Tricus in STAT.
In a parallel dream universe, the abandoned characters of Tricus (Jonathan Caron) in STAT and Tania (Guinevere Sandré) fromIndefensible meet, probably at the courthouse, and fall madly in love. These two are meant to live together, look how similar they are!
Tricus and Tania were abandoned by their loved ones, they lose the map sometimes and they like swords, I mean, it’s a match Perfect. Together, they will find a healthy mind (and maybe the Holy Spirit, who knows).
If Santa grants my wishes, ads on mobile apps like VAT+ And Noovo will not repeat four times in the same sequence.
And we could even move forward quickly in watching an episode without being stuck, a second time in a row, with the same four damn announcements. Seems to me like it’s a source of irritation that’s pretty easily corrected, right?
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Rebecca Vachon in a scene fromIndefensible
In my Christmas stocking, we would also find a gift certificate to the psychologist for the disturbed influencer Mylène Kirouac (Rebecca Vachon) fromIndefensible, a finished fan of Roxane Bruneau who loses contact with reality. Maybe it’s a side effect of listening to the recent record on repeat Overwhelmed : we escape it and dissociate ourselves for our own survival.
In short, after Marie-Anne Desjardins (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé) with Léo’s (Sébastien Delorme) shirt, here is another, poor Mylène, who sniffs too loudly at clothes that do not belong to her.
For our collective overall health, can we hope that all palliative care doctors are like Dr.D Danielle Grandmont from the docuseries On call 24/7 at Télé-Québec? What a warm, reassuring, empathetic, professional and attentive woman. She is impressive.
As long as we hope for miracles, could we, one day, create a slightly more robust ficus lyrata? As soon as we move it or a mini-current of air blows on it, boo-hoo, this plant gets frustrated and drops three large leaves at once, to punish us for having mistreated it. Result: a bunch of bare brown branches and zero greenery. SOS, Marthe Laverdière or Albert Mondor, it’s urgent.
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Louise Sigouin
Another request to Santa Claus that is easy to fill out: if you decide, after a brush with Coureur des bois, to register for If we loved each other from TVA, don’t go there for “therapy” with Louise Sigouin, frankly. Go for love with a large tattoo, Marie-Josée and Julien style.
So don’t be like Mélody who fooled Sam for three months. It gives flat TV over a medium period of time. Think of us (the viewers) and not of you, you selfish people.
For 2024, dear Saint Nicholas, could I also stop giving in to programs that only harm me? I’m tired of suffering. I can’t stand all these “true crime” series anymore that disturb my sleep.
Hey, I started on Wednesday A surgeon who wants you well? on Netflix. Lord Jesus. After a few minutes, it was clear that I would fall into a vortex of Google searches and frantic Wikipedia consultation. This documentary miniseries of three one-hour episodes tells the mind-blowing journey of superstar thoracic surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, a specialist in transplants of plastic tracheas dipped in stem cells (huh?).
The problem: seven of the eight patients of Dr Macchiarini died as a result of his hyper-dangerous operations, which had never been tested on animals.
The mythomaniac Italian doctor also falsified the results of his scientific research, in addition to leading a triple married life, in three countries.
How can you not binge this series in a single evening? Little Santa Claus, give me the courage to change the things I can.
But we just start tomorrow, okay? I have one episode left to watch.
I levite
With Simple like Sylvain by Monia Chokri
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Magalie Lépine-Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal in Simple like Sylvain
Did you miss it at the cinema? No problem. This excellent Quebec film, one of the best of the year, was released this week on all digital platforms. In a pretty retro shape, very 1970s, Simple like Sylvain addresses – with cynicism and tenderness – modern issues such as contempt for social class, the couple and, obviously, love. Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau), a university professor, abandons her life as a bourgeois Montreal intellectual to throw herself into the arms of construction contractor Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), a good guy from the regions. Their worlds collide violently. And the fondue scene with Linda Sorgini, Mathieu Baron and Christine Beaulieu will become a classic. A small glass of rosé?
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The “truthse crime” without final punch
In the good years of this television genre, miniseries like Making a Murderer of Netflix revived dead investigations and led to disturbing revelations. Today, there are so many shows of this type that none of them can surprise us anymore. We watch the timeline of a series of unsolved murders and end the episodes, disappointed, without getting more answers or other clues to the identity of the murderer. Case closed, you’ll come back for punch. As François Legault would say about immigrants welcomed in Quebec: let’s take less of them, but let’s take care of them.