Requiem for Between Two Sheets | The Press

I double-checked with producer Louis Morissette on Monday and the obituary won’t change: it’s over, dead and buried for the delicious comedy Between two sheets of Noovo, who was buried on Wednesday in front of 340,000 mourners, of which I am obviously one.

After four seasons on the air, this final episode ofBetween two sheets nicely wrapped up the destinies of the six couples or duos who open the door to their bedroom for us on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

And for the first time in the short history of this sitcom imagined by comedian Mathieu Pepper, several characters have left their cozy marital cocoon, sponsored by Jump mattresses, to go out into the real world.

Marie-Ève ​​(Bénédicte Décary) and Luc (François Papineau) toasted in a sports brasserie, Valère (Fayolle Jean Jr), Thomas (Mathieu Pepper) and Mélissa (Pascale Renaud-Hébert) filled a moving truck while the psychorigid political attaché Jean-Pascal, alias JP (Simon Pigeon), won his elections for the Parti Mouvement Québec.

Between two sheetsbuilt on the sketch model ofA boy a girlhas been a comedy favorite of the last four years.

The texts, written by a group of authors, remain among the most modern on Quebec television, with Breathe in breathe out And The candidate. From week to week, the screenwriters ofBetween two sheets managed to tackle daring and naughty subjects without ever sinking into vulgarity.

I loved the complicit relationship filled with derision between Virginie (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman) and her actor boyfriend Marco (Guillaume Girard), united to confront their overly lit daughter Florence (Florence Pilotte), who flirted with psychopathy, always with his semi-maniacal smile, of course.

Arguing about expensive candles, menstruation, or body pillows (a memory foam “little bitch”), Lydia (Virginie Ranger-Beauregard) and Antoine (Pier-Luc Funk) were never boring, and honorable mention to the physical performance of Pier-Luc Funk, capable of accomplishing “burlesque” miracles with his body. With Virginie and Marco, Lydia and Antoine inherited the most hilarious sequences ofBetween two sheetswhich started in January 2021 as a pandemic pilot project.

The couple formed by chef Simon (Antoine Pilon) and politician JP (Simon Pigeon) moved away from the stereotypes associated with the gay community and it was refreshing to see their relationship dynamic evolve. The two guys partied, happily pecked each other and adopted twins, carried by their good friend Jess (Catherine Brunet).

The roommates Valère and Thomas were not my favorites, I admit it. It looks like they weren’t playing in the same realistic and contemporary series as their colleagues. The arrival of Mélissa, Thomas’s blonde, brought the two friends back into more concrete intrigues, less Pineapple Expressa film where everyone is frozen like a bullet.

Marie-Ève ​​and Luc got a second wind when they ditched their suburban home for a condo in Montreal, which took them away from the rather conventional gags of Sunday morning lawnmowers and intrusive neighbors.

In the fall of 2021, the addition of Jean-Pierre (Martin Drainville) and Carole (Micheline Bernard), Thomas’ parents, allowed Between two sheets to cast an even wider net, from boomers to Generation Z.

It’s sad that one of the few good shows on the small screen is disappearing like this. At least Flo got her snake, while Jean-Pierre and Carole bought a snack, which will make their retirement even better. We console ourselves as best we can.

Another comedy adored by the public: Discussions with my parents from Radio-Canada, which relayed a touching Christmas episode on Monday evening. This series created by François Morency has always garnered strong ratings (840,000 viewers last week), but has been shunned by critics (guilty!) and snubbed by the media intelligentsia.

It’s true, the humor of Discussions with my parents is more conventional, predictable and tends to repeat itself. But reading your emails, you love the Morency clan which evokes yours, with its irritants and its charming sides.

Tired of taking care of such a large house, Jean-Pierre (Vincent Bilodeau) and Rollande (Marie-Ginette Guay) decided to sell the family residence and invited their three grown children to one last New Year’s Eve on December 24, which was not as chaotic as it was anticipated.

There were too many yurt jokes, but the hat-marshmallow carousel scene was dying. Then, François Morency began a more moving sequence by getting closer to his sister-in-law Chantal (Amélie Bernard) around the baseball bat – an exchange gift – signed by Gary Carter of the Montreal Expos.

And to the tune of the song Elsewhere de Marjo, all the Morencys, as well as their better halves, camped in the living room of this house which generated so many memories. Really, it was touching.

There will be a seventh and final season of Discussions with my parents in the fall of 2024. Perhaps the believer M^me Dupuis (excellent Danielle Fichaud), a cleaning lady who is as stupid as she is efficient, will smile and blink at the same time, which would earn her a lot of points during the final judgment.