Yes, the TV schedule is already overflowing with great series to watch, the extra-stocked Netflix catalog catches your eye, just like the 42 other paid platforms crammed with prestigious shows which rack up the prizes.
But do you keep an hour a week to One way ticket de Noovo, a captivating thriller that borrows as much from the work of Agatha Christie as from an excellent series such as Only murders in the Building from Disney + or to movies like Knives Out, with a darker touch.
Message to readers who can’t find Only Murders in the Building on Disney +: you must remove the parental filter, which automatically blocks so-called adult shows. You’re welcome.
Therefore, One way ticket. It starts Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Noovo against Children of TV at Radio-Canada and The perfect moments at VAT. Three proposals that will appeal to three different audiences.
If that can convince you to take a look, or even better both, know thatOne way ticket comes from the efficient team behind Epidemic and The impostor at TVA, the authors Bernard Dansereau, Annie Piérard and Étienne Piérard-Dansereau, as well as the skilful director Yan Lanouette Turgeon.
After seeing the first two episodes on Monday, I would have gladly donned the last four to solve this intriguing mystery. But who’s pulling the strings in this human game of Clue? Why were these six people – plus a last-minute companion – brought together on this journey that turns into a nightmare? Who is trying to punish them for their past mistakes?
This is where the pleasure of viewing lies One way ticket, a miniseries where the protagonists die very quickly (don’t get too attached) and where no character shows his true face. We then look for clues, we focus on all the details and we speculate on who did what and why in this very well knitted story.
One way ticket is an onion production, which unfolds layer by layer, with punches at the end of each episode. It is rudely attractive.
At the start, the six passengers ofOne way ticket do not know each other. They meet on the tarmac as they prepare to board a private helicopter bound for Val-Beaulac, an estate owned by eccentric billionaire Robert Beaulac (Germain Houde).
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Éric Bruneau plays one of the six passengers ofOne way ticket.
The group of six is made up of a famous criminal lawyer (Éric Bruneau), a successful businesswoman (Caroline Dhavernas), a former organized crime investigator (Samian), a marketing director (Anie Pascale), a retired university professor (Luc Picard) and an art dealer (Rémi-Pierre Paquin). The seventh traveler who joins the main core is the “assistant” of the art dealer, played by Nathalie Doummar.
But now, the lucky ones will never land in Val-Beaulac. Their helicopter makes an “emergency” landing in the middle of the woods and they take refuge in a large chalet nearby. Without a cellular network, without a landline and without the helicopter’s radio, no one can reach the emergency services.
You understand here that this is not an accident, but an extremely well planned act. Someone, somewhere, wanted to bring these six people together in the chalet and isolate them from the rest of the outside world. Who, how, why? The fun begins.
Quickly, the camera darkened in anguish and suspicion. The personalities collide and the past of the protagonists, sometimes shown in flashback, comes to the surface.
There is another pivotal character in the plot: the helicopter pilot (Marc Beaupré). He never looks people in the eye and refuses to answer the most trivial of questions. Very suspicious behavior.
Obviously, the police will put their nose in the “disappearance” of this helicopter. And the investigator assigned to the file, camped by Anick Lemay, has no idea of the wasp nest in which she has just typed. I can’t wait to devour the rest.
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