One Way: Survive | Let’s channel our inner Miss Marple!

Sherlock Holmes from the living room, Miss Marple from the flat screen and other Hercule Poirot from the tablet, polish your monocles, dust off your felt hats and wax your thick mustaches, because a new game of television Clue begins with the return ofOne way ticket on the waves of Noovo.

Set your cuckoo clocks for Wednesday at 8 p.m. Corpses are piling up, people spy on each other, take drugs, dig graves, hide information from the cops, in short, there is good material to examine through Professor Plum’s glasses.

This second part ofOne way ticketstill laid by Bernard Dansereau, Annie Piérard and their son Étienne, offers a new investigation unrelated to the first, but which brings back its two pivotal characters, the investigator Juliette Michaud (Anick Lemay) and her lover Thomas (Jean-Nicolas Verreault), a former police officer forced to arrest, who uses a wheelchair.

While renovating their condo in Montreal, Juliette and Thomas move into a decrepit house at the end of a row in Bedford, in the Eastern Townships. Their only immediate neighbours? The occupants of an ecological farm, thirty-somethings who dream of self-sufficiency, free-range chickens and organic vegetables.

As in rear window by Alfred Hitchcock, a 100% accepted influence, Thomas spends his days at the window snorting and spying on the young people opposite. A real weasel. His interest, fueled by boredom, borders on unhealthy obsession.

Once a detective, always a detective, Thomas is interested in the seven farmers of the town and particularly in Ariane Duclos (Rosalie Bonenfant), a sparkling actress very Greta Thunberg, as talkative as she is active on social networks.

Quickly, in the first episode, the idyllic country portrait darkens with the arrival at the farm of Xavier Marchand (Antoine Olivier Pilon), who claims to be looking for a filming location for a big American film. This strange character of Xavier will trigger a cascade of events that will plunge the apprentice farmers into a state of panic more serious than their eco-anxiety.

I loved the “vintage” aspect of the first chapter ofOne way ticketwhich shattered viewing records in the winter of 2022. A rustic cabin, strangers forced to fraternize in a place cut off from the world, an eccentric billionaire who pulls the strings, disturbing web capsules, this miniseries at the Knives Out was incredibly effective.

The second part, titled One Way: Survive, gets rid of its “in camera” aspect, which takes away some of the fun of finding out who did what in the story, I think. The suspects no longer live in prison, they roam freely and strum on their iPhone, while escape, virtual or real, proved impossible in the first season.

The assassin – or the killer? – lived under the same roof as his future victims, hello tension, distrust and paranoia. And impossible for the refugees from the summer house to call the police (no network!) or to escape by car, they were thought to have died in a helicopter crash. Pure and delicious Agatha Christie, with a very pleasant old-fashioned touch.

That said, One Way: Survive, more modern in style, will not disappoint fans of suspense. On the contrary. The three screenwriters know how to write captivating plots and punctuate each of the six episodes with a surprising turnaround, which provokes the desire to return to Noovo the following Wednesday to continue the investigation.

You should know that no clues have been planted at random in the dialogues or in the images ofOne Way: Survive. Every detail counts, whether it’s women’s underwear or a supposedly innocuous replica. Eerie music still skillfully punctuates the most tense moments of this classic murder mystery in its form.

Without divulging anything, we guess that the “culprit” is among the group of seven “gentlemen farmers”, including the couple formed by Sophie Nélisse and Anglesh Major, parents of baby Gabin. A second couple, played by Rose-Marie Perreault and Nahéma Ricci, also arouses several suspicions.

Notice, it could also be the nerd of the group (Simon Landry-Désy) or the benevolent friend (Charles-Aubey Houde). And let’s not rule out the actress unable to keep a secret either (Rosalie Bonenfant).

In addition to the police side, One way ticket addresses a very contemporary subject: our digital presence, the traces we leave and the ease with which it is possible to keep someone alive on Facebook or Instagram by having access to their cell phone.

This may be a clue that will guide your hunt for who is responsible for the death of several important figures in this miniseries. Because yes, the characters are dropping like flies in One way ticketwhich shortens the list of potential criminals.

Last titillating detail: director Rafaël Ouellet borrowed codes from horror films like Scream Or I Know What You Did Last Summer to cover the tracks.

There’s no yellow hat fisherman in One Way: Survivebut there’s a huge hook in the text that grabs us and locks us to the couch for quite a bit longer than Drew Barrymore’s phone call in the first Screamthat’s for sure.