Until the last second of the final The emperorthe slimy advertising man Christian Savard (Jean-Philippe Perras) almost escaped his trial by fleeing to Panama, with the complicity of a local doctor who is as corruptible as he is irresponsible.
Honestly, if Christian the Snake’s escape plan had worked, I would have screamed like Martin Matte when he poses a frame in The beautiful discomforts. Holy beep of tabar-beep of damned beep of the cali-beep!
We’ll give him that, Christian: he bounces back all the time. He constantly charms, pulls a final string or threatens an acquaintance to get out of trouble. He is a skilled and twisted narcissistic pervert, never at the end of his resources.
Except that there, it’s over for this playboy with an inflated ego. Six years in prison for sexual assault, false imprisonment and administration of a harmful substance. At the bottom of his cell, our snake man will have plenty of time to read and reread The art of War, by Sun Tzu. Because surviving in prison, when you carry the labels of pedophile and predator, requires devilishly effective military strategies.
Throughout the winter, there were hundreds of thousands of us fuming and hoping for the worst for Christian Savard, one of the most hateful characters on the Quebec small screen. We loved seeing the noose tighten around this Teflon attacker, who resisted all the complaints and all the testimonies of his victims.
We rejoiced when suave Christian’s armor cracked. We were boiling when he was rebuilding for the 27e times, with his wry smile and his confidence as a bitcoin seller.
Screenwriter Michelle Allen created a perfect character for Noovo to serve as a collective release. A real villain with just enough nuance to play in our heads.
Yes, Christian was a sex maniac, no debate on that. But he was also a good family man, who adored his two children, a talented publicist and a charismatic man. It is this duplicity, worthy of the greatest psychopath, which allowed him to operate for a very, very long time without anyone catching him.
The former boss of the Primal.e agency, Allison (Shoshana Wilder), played a less aggressive version of Christian Savard, but also out of place. Initially, it was believed that Allison lived under the influence of the magnetic Christian, who had bewitched her. We quickly saw with director Laurier (Gabriel Lemire) that Shoshana slips when she tastes power.
This final of The emperor, relayed Wednesday evening, was very satisfactory and I do not think that showing the second trial of Christian Savard would have been relevant. It would have been a repetition of the intrigue knitted around Manuela Suarez (Noé Lira), the first to file a police complaint against the expert in credible lies.
On the other hand, why not have opened the door to a rapprochement between Manuela and Laurier? In two busy seasons, The emperor has shown that many romantic or sexual relationships in the office turn into nightmares. However, it remains possible to establish healthy relationships between consenting adults in the workplace.
What emerges most from the second and final chapter of The emperorthis is the extent to which the actions of a criminal like Christian Savard cause a powerful shock wave in those around him – and even further afield.
Poor Audrey (Madeleine Péloquin) naively swallowed the words of her manipulative brother and her own daughter Rosie (Léa Roy) fell into Christian’s clutches. Audrey’s relationship exploded.
Then, Léa’s grandfather, Lionel (Jean L’Italien), probably committed suicide at the wheel of his car. Regarding Lionel, the revelation of his pedophilia in no way excused the behavior of his son Christian, attacked by his own father at the age of 10. This information, I think, was not revealed to justify Christian’s actions, but to establish the twisted family context which also affected Audrey, her daughter Rosie and Christian’s children, the oldest of whom was photographed by Lionel without his swimsuit top.
I also liked that the last slap in Christian’s face was given to him (metaphorically) by Antoine (David Boutin), who thus completed his redemption.
There is a lot of talk about gaslighting and of grooming when the media talk about denunciations and the #metoo movement. The emperor concretely explains the complexity and impact of these terms. Cognitive misappropriation and manipulation of minors, you must know how to recognize the signs.
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With Paul in STAT
We want more animals in our series, please, as long as no one tortures them like in With a beating heart. Patient Didier Péloquin’s (Greg Beaudin) assistance dog, the one who injects himself with arsenic-laced Ozempic, has been stealing the show for several episodes of STAT. Even the most averse to animals, surgeon Isabelle Granger (Geneviève Schmidt), succumbed to the canine charm of handsome Paul, the most adorable and endearing beast on the small screen. Long live pet therapy.
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Cora’s “rebellious” side
For her customers with dark eyes (LOL!), Cora represents the enveloping grandma cake who hands us a sunny menu, and drawn by a 7 year old child, filled with colorful fruits and mountains of sweet pancakes. In its new ads, the breakfast restaurant chain displays its rebellious side with its dishes of “grilled cheese pizza”, “general tao poutine” and “chicken gyros”. This “Lady and the Ox” type turn doesn’t work. And a jaded TikToker would definitely say that it’s jail.