Fall is the season to start bundling up on the living room armchair. Want a good series or film from the Netflix catalog? Here are some ideas.
Virgin River
Virgin River is a reassuring, calm and comforting series, where mutual aid and optimism are activated when disaster strikes. At $3 million per episode, the equivalent of the budget for an hour of The night Laurier Gaudreault woke up, Virgin River is the least expensive television anxiolytic to produce. And the prescription is automatically renewed every year.
Hugo Dumas
Selling the OC
Still on Netflix, I wolfed down the second season of Selling the OCthe little beach sister of Selling Sunset (Sun to spare). Honestly, this romantic-real estate reality show is consumed like a bag of chips. Quickly and with great remorse.
Hugo Dumas
Barracuda Queens
What a great discovery this Swedish miniseries is. Barracuda Queens from Netflix, halfway between the film The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola and a series of teenagers à la Euphoria. As Barracuda Queens (The Queens of Barracuda) has only six 30-minute episodes, it can be devoured, in English or French, in a single evening. Excellent entertainment.
Hugo Dumas
Painkiller
Painkiller, offered in French and English, can be swallowed in one sitting, despite the irritants that punctuate the six one-hour episodes. It’s easier to give up when the subject is so strong.
Hugo Dumas
Heartstopper 2
The eight episodes of the second act of the series Heartstopper are overflowing with tenderness and sweetness, which contrasts with the ultra trashy current currently running through series aimed at teenagers. Coming out occupies a significant portion of the plot of Heartstopper 2. Should we give in to popular pressure and come out immediately, or follow our own pace, even if it means staying in the closet longer? These tensions are approached with great sensitivity.
Hugo Dumas
They Cloned Tyrone
The performance of the three actors allows They Cloned Tyrone not to be a wacky film. John Boyega (most recent trilogy Star Wars, The Woman King) plays Fontaine with a pent-up rage that he releases only briefly. This restraint is in complete opposition to Jamie Foxx (Ray, Django Unchained) and Teyonah Parris (Chi-Raq, If Beale Street Could Talk) who form a duo pimp And pro hilarious. Their incessant insults, their countless references to popular culture, their Olympic repartee. They are merciless, but vulnerable. Very beautiful compositions.
Pascal LeBlanc
Cunk on Earth
Diane Morgan stole every scene in Afterlife, this comedy by Ricky Gervais in which she played Kath, the eccentric office worker and painkiller of Tony (Ricky Gervais). This is why we let ourselves be tempted by Cunk on Earth (in French, Planet Cunk), a parody documentary series in which the British actress, comedian and author reprises her character of Philomena Cunk, a silly and poorly prepared host and commentator. Throughout five episodes, she interviews experts on world history, armed with silly – but hilarious – questions like: “Was the invention of writing significant or was it a flash in the pan, like rap metal? »
Marc-André Lemieux