Obviously the hunt for the rapist with the colored cords was not going to be resolved as easily as with the intervention of the SWAT and the GICCS team which was hanging around, on the big nerve, in an unsubtle black van.
Too simple, too predictable. If there is a lesson to be learned from this thrilling third season of Reasonable doubt on Radio-Canada, is that the plot will twist at least two or three times before its resolution. Moreover, the first suspect who appears in the line of sight of the valiant cell of Alice Martin-Sommer (Julie Perreault) is rarely the culprit.
Did you really believe that the racist and misogynist Alex Gravel (Jean-Moïse Martin) had attacked the joggers alone and recovered the drawstrings of their sports shorts? On paper, he ticked all the boxes for a maniac with a carabiner. In great physical shape, an employee of the town planning department (he knows the parks!) and frustrated at his replacement by a young racialized woman, Alex Gravel flashed fire engine red on our screens.
But Reasonable doubtit’s even more twisted, creepy and fucked thanks to the author Pierre-Marc Drouin. During an extremely tense and skillful interrogation, Alice played in Alex Gravel’s head by questioning his virility and his power. This scene of psychological confrontation was written and performed with remarkable precision.
Alex broke down and directed the police to the filthy apartment where he hung his victims’ cords like hunting trophies. Case closed ? Not really. At the end of Monday evening’s episode, another twist: while Alex Gravel confessed his crimes to Alice and her partner Fred (Marc-André Grondin), a jogger suffered a violent attack in the same park, beaten baseball bat.
Obviously, crazy Alex is operating with an accomplice. But who ? Immediately, I thought of Thomas Archibald (Max Lafferiere), 42, the ex-firefighter retrained as a mixed martial arts instructor who patrolled the parks in last week’s episode. He was too quickly removed from the radar of the Sexual Crimes Intervention Group (GICCS). And he too complained about immigration policies that were too lax.
The next episode of Reasonable doubt, already online on Tou.tv Extra, dives into the psyche of the unhinged Alex Gravel, and it’s as scary as it is disgusting. An important detail about Alex’s deviant sexuality will push Alice and Fred down a promising line of investigation.
The champion of madmen Reasonable doubt However, Yvan Belzile remains, played brilliantly by François Papineau. What a terrible being with his brown teeth, his serial killer urges and his greasy appearance. Charged, the moments of confession between Yvan and Alice evoked Mindhunterthe excellent Netflix miniseries in which FBI detectives interrogate famous assassins at length to understand where their madness comes from and how to detect it in other potential sociopaths.
Sometimes it felt like we were playing again in Thesilenceofthelambs when Agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) was pulling worms out of the deranged D’s noser Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).
Speaking of the mysterious Alice, she slowly sheds her thick and cold shell. She confirmed to Fred that she had been gang raped. And she let her guard down in front of real estate agent Rémy Deblois (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), to whom she revealed things that we rarely hear on Quebec TV.
Alice never “made love.” She has never had a “real relationship”. She is incapable of being “sexually” intimate with a man. And she must always be in control.
TV series often show the opposite, that is, characters who thrive on unbridled sex and who have a series of one-night conquests.
It’s actually a mini-abstinence trend that’s emerging this winter on Quebec TV. In the soap opera Witchesfrom TVA, investigative journalist Joe Bussières (Céline Bonnier) told her half-sister Agnès (Noémie O’Farrell) that she had not had sex since her teenage years, when she was dating Luc Tougas (Stéphane Gagnon) in the commune of Sainte-Piété.
Parenthesis, here: the partial genetic link between the carpenter Luc and the baby abandoned at the falls resurrects the hypothesis that Charlot, the child Luc and Joe had more than 30 years ago, is not really dead.
Back to the “sex advice” column, in complete privacy with my 450,000 listeners, there is also the prosecutor Gabrielle Laflamme (Ève Landry), fromWith a beating heart, who lets neither men nor women into his bed. This possibility is never even touched upon.
Christophe L’Allier (Roy Dupuis) doesn’t have much of an intimate life, mind you. There are so many big dramas to deal with in With a beating heart that a marital problem would seem very trivial next to a violent father who had his head bashed in with a cane.
I levitate
With The Traitors on Crave
The second season of the American version, shot in a Scottish castle, is delicious. It is, in fact, a giant murder mystery game involving twenty reality TV stars, including Housewiveswinners of Survivor and champions of Big Brother. In short, people used to lying and scheming. Like in the board game Werewolves, the traitors are murdering poor innocents incognito and they must be unmasked! Karine Vanasse will direct the Quebec adaptation, Traitors, in the spring, on the airwaves of Noovo. Very excited to watch this.
I avoid it
The radio ad for 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS
The cause is noble. You give your old car to this organization, which then gives you a tax receipt (for charitable donation) for the value of the vehicle. Great ! But the refrain that accompanies Kars 4 Kids radio ads is downright unbearable. It’s almost torture. After the first piano notes, we feel like screaming: take it, my tank, take all my money, but spare my eardrums!