I was at a private party with several influential people in Quebec television last weekend. And what do you think the guests were talking about, between three sips of Aperol Spritz, two puffs of a cigarette and a mouthful of Taco King guacamole (the best in town)?
From the royal assent of Bill C-11, who will force Netflix and company to inject money into local production?
Media conglomerates that buy big chunks of major independent production companies like Sphère, Pixcom or Déferlantes?
Facebook posts by Josélito Michaud that surpass themselves in hyperbole and that will soon cause a shortage of incense burners?
No way. You are in the field. The most animated discussions of the party turned around If we still loved each other at TVA, to the delight of my inner world, lord.
“I’m completely addicted,” even confided to me one of the busiest screenwriters in Quebec showbiz who you can’t imagine wondering if he’s more dependent or codependent in his relationship as a couple.
This season of If we still loved each otherfocused on marital issues, is coming to an end – with just one week left – and it doesn’t look very good for the future of the couple formed by Janie and Lee, the champions of blackboard discomforts.
At the same time, their embarrassment reflects obvious distress, especially in Lee, a 43-year-old man who struggles with dull anger and depressed feelings, which he calms by smoking hashish every night, alone in his bachelor. Lee himself admitted his drug use to a Louise Sigouin who digs deeper and deeper into her toolbox to patch up this broken union.
If, at the beginning of the series, we liked to make fun of the atypical way of life of Janie and Lee, who never sleep in the same bed, we discovered this week the extent of the disarray that invades Lee. There was nothing funny in hearing him howl his unease on the terrace of the chalet.
Then, in the next scene, the empathy we had for Lee was shattered by yet another session of pouting and grunts. At his side, Janie, 40, freezes and asks him the same questions over and over again, to which he never has a clear or audible answer. And Janie insists, and persists, and the old record skips.
They are brave – or reckless – the candidates of If we still loved each other. They reveal extremely intimate things to 529,000 viewers, on average, such as the frequency of their sexual relations, or the absence of sexuality between them, as well as their masturbation habits, which annoy some spouses.
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Emmanuelle and Jeremy
They also expose themselves to acid comments on the way they raise their children, particularly Emmanuelle, 34, and Jérémie, 28, the last two of whom, Nolan and Éloi, stir a lot, a lot of air.
It’s dizzying, especially at supper time, when the cacophony even buries the advice of the specialized educator called in to reinforce the Nanny 911.
Again, our sympathy for Emmanuelle twirls according to the episodes. On Wednesday evening, Emmanuelle called Jérémie a loser at the restaurant in addition to threatening one of his daughters, who stood up to him, to throw her into the fire, which was in fact a fireplace broadcast on a TV screen.
Replica of Emmanuelle’s preteen? “Heille han, I’m going to fart the TV more than anything else. Not very intelligent lady, ”she said to her mother without blinking.
Emmanuelle’s response: “Where is she, my daughter? You know, the little 3-year-old girl who was beautiful and who was fine. What is this case? »
Response from the second daughter, who referred to her mother’s “dirty character”: “Are you saying that we are not beautiful? It sounded that way, yes. Faintness.
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Natalie and Pierre
Fortunately, the unloved couple of the first weeks, Pierre and Nathalie, are gaining strength even if they continue to talk to each other like babies, sweet Jesus, that’s special. Pierre, 56, Nathalie, 50, have reconnected in a tantrism workshop as strange as it is effective. The work of therapist Louise Sigouin works with them. On the other hand, our dear Nathalie is “still waiting for her pay”, as she constantly repeats.
Its what? His pay, that is to say, a full sexual relationship with Pierre. Nathalie has been talking about it since the first day she sat in front of Louise Sigouin, who quickly told her to calm down the inner chihuahua if she wanted to get sex.
Why do we know all these details of daily life from pure strangers? Because everything is filmed at If we loved each other. Moreover, it is by Thursday evening that we should know the outcome of the saga of the bidet, alias the butt-washing toilet, which Pierre wanted to install, but which Nathalie resisted with all the strength transmitted to her by her Hector dog.
Thank you life for these precious moments, gratitude, namaste and any other cottage slogan written on a barn wood hanger.