No, but what a brilliant week at TVA. Investigator Maxime Dubois (Mathieu Baron)Indefensible survived his food court shooting and a lightning strike lit up the first episode of If we loved each otherwhich culminated with a date around a painting spoon rest at the Céramic Café in Laval.
How can you produce so much television happiness, eh? I wonder. Seriously.
So, the story of the fake policeman with the horrible wigIndefensible will cost our valiant Maxime Dubois dearly, in love with the criminalist Marie-Anne Desjardins (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé). This scene of exchange of gunfire was also very poorly choreographed and filmed, it was borderline haywire.
Max may have avoided carnage by shooting the disguised cop, but he first shot an unarmed young man, Nico (Anthony Parent-Castanha), son of police officer Jean-Pierre Gendron (Guy Jodoin). .
And to see how this Jean-Pierre Gendron, not to be confused with the character of Marc-André Bonenfant in the TV novel Alertspampers his service weapon, we suspect that it won’t end in kumbaya, all that.
The mess in which Max Dubois was immersed ate up almost all the airtime of the popular TVA daily, which sluggishly started its second season Monday evening. First, the authors conveyed in two or three lines the big drama which enveloped the miraculous resurrection of M.e Frédéric Legrand (Martin-David Peters) during the final ofIndefensible relayed last spring.
Only the young lawyer Inès Saïd (Nour Belkhiria) seemed concerned, with good reason, by the secret operation which orchestrated the false death of Me Legrand, while his colleagues at the Lapointe, Macdonald and Desjardins cabinet continued to stroll, nonchalantly, between their blue offices and the “bullpen”.
Positive point: the show Indefensible was equipped with a new, more modern opening credits, less telenovela from 1996. Negative note: less catchy cases were put forward in the new episodes.
The story of the 33-year-old single mother, couponer, welfare recipient and chicken thief at the grocery store, was not the most thrilling.
Gentle reality documentary
On the docureality side If we loved each otherthe fourth season took off smoothly, what a radical change, and no cantankerous or divisive characters irritated viewers, another feat in itself.
High school teacher Marie-Josée, 48, and carpenter Julien, 44, experienced love at first sight whose intensity and electricity almost made therapist Louise Sigouin straighten her hair. This is the first time that two participants have thrown themselves into each other’s arms so quickly. You’re beautiful, wow, I think you’re so fine, great, I’m good with you, ayoye, I love getting to know you, Julien drew out the full arsenal of compliments and Marie-Josée fell for it.
Honestly, it was borderline stupid. I don’t have a heart, I know.
If there is a lesson to be learned from so many hours invested in If we loved each other, is that we must be wary of these impulses that are too rapid. Wound of (insert here: shame, loneliness or pride) to be healed, would note the priestess of dualities, Louise Sigouin.
After rigorous analysis of the four half-hours of If we loved each other, I fear for the romantic potential between business manager Alexandre, 45, and family educator Julie, 44. He loves sea kayaking, mountain biking and alpine ski touring. She doesn’t seem like the outdoorsy type at all. When Louise Sigouin noted that Alexandre had difficulty contacting his emotional world, the separation alert sounded.
On the other hand, the chemistry works well between Sylvain, 55 years old, teacher and ex-truck driver, and Frédérique, also a road bike enthusiast. They were adorable having their first glass of wine.
From the bedroom, commentators Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge and Émily Bégin returned to their two-seater sofa. And they barely touched their fruit and lemon cake platter, which was just waiting for some action, let’s see.
PHOTO CATHERINE LEFEBVRE, SPECIAL COLLABORATION
Julie Snyder
Busy as a result… double!
Come on, Double occupation is preparing its export to France, where producer Julie Snyder has sold the adaptation rights to the audiovisual giant Mediawan, whose thick catalog includes big hits like Red bracelets, HPI, The flame And Call my agent.
“The chances thatDouble occupation occurring in France are 99%. They want to start production very quickly,” explains Julie Snyder, who did not specify which private channel would broadcast OD in France. It could be TF1, M6 or NRJ12.
The bosses of Mediawan, who bought Brad Pitt’s production company in December, visited the two villas ofDouble occupation in Andalusia, where the next season is currently being filmed. Julie Snyder then went to Paris to finalize the contracts.
20 years ago, in September 2003, Double occupation opened the doors of his first house, built on the Point-Zéro-sur-le-Lac estate, in Blainville. The French group Mediawan also took an option on the format in the winter Zenith by Véronique Cloutier, which was developed by KOTV.
I levitate
With the book Fancy Molasses by Francis Ouellette.
One of the best Quebec novels of 2023, straddling the worlds of Michel Tremblay and Heather O’Neill. The young narrator lives on rue Poupart, in the South Center of Montreal, surrounded by eccentric and endearing characters like the homeless Frigo, the lesbian mother-in-law Ti-Crisse and the pretty prostitute Chantale Choquette. This learning story, inspired by the life of its author, oscillates between the funny, the vulgar, the stunning and the very crude. A magnificent polaroid from the 1970s and 1980s, in the heart of Faubourg à m’lasse, told in a colorful language.
Fancy Molasses
The wick
216 pages
I avoid it
Rybelsus TV ads.
My father told me about Rybelsus! Ah yes, Rybelsus, I take some too! How ugly and impossible to skip are these ads? It is wrongly believed that it is a super effective antidepressant because the people who praise it smile until their jaws drop. But no. Rybelsus is rather a medication intended for type 2 diabetics, one of the side effects of which is weight loss. Like Ozempic, which also benefits from very effective marketing.