While Inès (Nour Belkhiria) lay dying on a rotten mattress in a moldy basementIndefensiblethe Dr Davis (Thomas Beaudoin) STAT has almost resurrected, with his symmetrical face of an international model, the very magané Éric Perron (Stéphane Rousseau), who has been fighting against ricin poisoning for several episodes already.
The super square jaw of the military doctor – should we rename him McArmy? – brought Eric out of the woods quite a bit faster than the experimental antibody, carefully preserved at the base in Trenton, Ontario.
Even Emmanuelle St-Cyr (Suzanne Clément) felt the powerful electroshock produced by the good, sexy doctor with the confused accent. The question arises, moreover. The Dr Is Davis Acadian? Or British? Or aphasic? Well well well. Low blow, sorry.
With such a perfect face, you have to find a fault in it, in this Dr Davis. And his notable passage in STAT will not end with the healing of Françoise Lalonde (Chantal Baril), who finally spoke her first lines after waking up from a coma dating from before Christmas. The Dr Davis will return for a few more episodes, spies tell me.
Several medical cases have progressed this week STAT, propelled by adultery, the third eye and venous gases. The case of Victor Muller (Arthur Holden), aka Mr. Pillbox, has been solved. The author Marie-Andrée Labbé stitched the case of Mr. Muller with that of a suicidal patient, Noémie Gauthier, who threw herself down from the third floor of Saint-Vincent in 2018, and who was his daughter.
Also, Françoise Lalonde’s three false grandchildren were excluded from the investigation into threats and attempted poisoning against the Prime Minister of Canada. It was the grandmother herself who orchestrated the plot and manufactured the deadly poison. Cleverly played by the screenwriter, who fooled us well.
We feel that this plot is heading towards a case of assisted suicide. Françoise prefers to leave on her own rather than languish in prison and she has requested the help of Xavier (Thomas Delorme) to carry out her plan.
Let’s talk about Rosalie (Marine Johnson), now. This irritating character had tested every conceivable limit of our patience. And too much stupidity would have destroyed the last trace of empathy from the viewers.
Fortunately, miracles (and medicines?) exist and Rosalie has regained contact with reality. She has kicked Francis (Antoine Desrochers) out and rebuilt the bridges with her psychiatrist father Philippe (Patrick Labbé), who spins bad cotton, like that of her stiff white coat.
A return to the past involving Julie Faubert (Isabelle Brouillette) suggested this week that Philippe could be the father of emergency doctor Jacob (Lou-Pascal Tremblay). It’s hard to believe, I think, and this crucial information was provided too casually. Marie-Andrée Labbé has accustomed us to working harder to obtain a scoop of such capital importance.
On the other hand, I believe in the prophecy of the clairvoyant Édith O’Neil (Marie-France Marcotte), my favorite patient at the hospital, who saw clearly, before losing her gift in the scan, about the mysterious Jacob. “You don’t know who you’re dealing with,” Edith insisted, which reminded me of Jacob’s psychopathic attitude during the first season finale of STATlast April.
Still on the subject of medical shows, I loved the first episode of the third season of Red bracelets on TVA, broadcast Tuesday at 8 p.m. The sequence where Félix (Anthony Therrien) temporarily joined Flavie (Audrey Roger), between two worlds, was super touching. She recalled a similar moment from the first year when Kim (Léanne Désilets) passed little Albert (Malick Babin) in an imaginary swimming pool before letting go of the edge and drifting to his death.
After a weak and ordinary second season, we have the impression of reconnecting with the kindness and mutual aid that illuminated this television series when it was released. Everything was bad last year, it seems. Flavie killed herself, while the health of Justin (Antoine L’Écuyer) and Félix deteriorated dangerously.
When Félix left the intensive care unit and showed Justin the red bracelets hanging on his arm, we felt the solidarity and emotion reconnect. Just one little nod from Justin and we understood that the gang would come together, despite the painful operations and the discouraging test results. Welcome back, bracelets!
I levitate
With Monique and Fred from 5e Rank
Grandmother Monique Lacombe (Sophie Clément) and her grandson Fred Longpré (Maxim Gaudette), the police chief of Valmont, formed a formidable pair in the hunt for the maniac Marc Trempe (Marc Béland) in 5e Rank. With her shotgun, the clumsy Monique first hit the deranged shoe salesman, then Fred finished the job, before Trempe stabbed him and triggered the explosion of his mummified mother’s house. Bonus: Fred and Gladys (Julie Roussel) finally gave in to their eros, which fans predicted since the first episode. The smoothies finally took effect.
I avoid it
Marie-Paule of 5e Rank
We would like to believe in his childish naivety. We would like to find her funny, spontaneous and just offbeat enough. But no. Visual artist Marie-Paule (Ève Duranceau) gives us a dirty talk about cabbage (not grown on the Goulet farm). After being beaten, kidnapped, held at knife point and doused with gasoline by the madman Marc Trempe, the same one who had dismembered his own sister, Marie-Paule once again found excuses to rehabilitate the memory of the Valmont serial killer and escapee from the local asylum. How can we describe the behavior of the disturbed Marie-Paule without descending into insult? Impossible. So, I will abstain.