“You really have to hang in there, I swear, the action takes off from the eighth episode, and then it becomes completely mind-blowing, you’ll never regret having endured all the lengths! »
This plea for patience in the consumption of a teleseries with a long deployment, I have heard it as often as Isabelle Boulay has had pain in love – and pain in her eyes – since 1998.
I myself have regularly implored your tolerance in the pages of our love, that is to say this electronic journal. Yes, it is difficult at first, but persist! Your wait will be rewarded at the 39e minute of the penultimate episode out of a total of 12!
Like a Roxane Bruneau on her fourth Tim of the day, I now do things my way. In fact, I return to the basic rule in TV, that of the three episodes.
If after three episodes, the plot is bof! and the subject turns out to be meh!, run away like the little one Runawaypull the plug, clear off, it will never improve enough to (re)capture your attention.
The rule of three remains reliable for gauging our interest in a TV series. In general, the first episodes were rewritten and polished several times before ending up on the air. If these are bad, there is a good chance that the following, less worked, flounder in the same poor quality.
It’s cruel to creators who have been sanding their screenplays for years. But in the current context of a hyper-abundant television offer, spread over a host of digital platforms, a series must take off hard and fast, otherwise it will fall into limbo alongside Martin, Vicky and Simon from Survivor Quebec.
Trailer of The Idol
For example, after the first episode of The Idol, it was obvious that it would smell of rotten eggs and the cigarette of the actress-human chimney Lily-Rose Depp for a long time. After the third, the failure was complete, especially after this disgusting scene where the rat-tailed guru (The Weeknd) beat his girlfriend with the wooden hairbrush used by his dead mother to torture her. What can I say, other than it’s embarrassing to air such ridiculous and retrograde television in 2023?
The worst part is that I refuse to unplug The Idol. A masochist, I will stay until the end, scheduled for Sunday at 9 p.m. on Crave and Super Ecran, to better hate every second of this appallingly misogynistic series. Yes, I went there in hatred. It’s serious. And unhealthy.
But never so twisted and deviant as what unfolds in the home of pop star Jocelyn (pronounced Josse-Line), home to a community of hippie musicians, including minors, who love electric shock collars and masturbation in front of a microphone. Big anything.
Those around Jocelyn know the rat-tailed guru is a raving madman, but no one intervenes. Great. From a program on the toxicity of the music industry in Hollywood, The Idol metastasized into a cult à la Charles Manson, a fine pretext to fill the episodes with gratuitous sex scenes and high-sounding songs from The Weeknd.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, the excellent dystopian series Silo of the Apple TV+ platform easily passed the three-episode test. After the first, it was clear as “the lights in the sky” that I would go to the tenth with an enthusiasm bordering on that of Anick Dumontet at wheel of fortune.
I loved Silo and the finale, online since Friday, opened great doors for the second season, which promises to be abundant.
For latecomers who haven’t visited all 144 floors of the silo in question, the leaker alert flashes here on a retro VIC-20-like screen in green letters on a black background. It’s good ? Perfect.
Trailer of Silo
Finally, one of the 10,000 inhabitants of the silo saw the exterior of the gigantic cylinder and was not struck down while walking a few meters on the surface of the toxic and post-apocalyptic Earth. Unlike her comrades who stepped outside before her, ex-sheriff and mechanic Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) wore a jumpsuit made from “good materials,” thanks to her surrogate mom Martha Walker (Harriet Walter). And Juliette was not fooled by the fake image of green meadows that was transmitted through the visor of her astronaut helmet.
The air outside is unbreathable, it was true. On the other hand, we learned that there are silos other than the one ruled by the phlegmatic and despotic Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins), as we could see in the final scene, which also showed a city, surely abandoned, on the horizon.
It’s obvious that Juliet will knock on the door of the nearby silo in the next chapter, because no one will allow her to come home, it would break all the rules of the Covenant and surely cause a rebellion.
This science fiction series, which depicts an underground world that escaped a planetary catastrophe, was one of the nice surprises of the spring. It’s intelligent, captivating and moving. Another well-respected rule of three.