Every week, The Press scan the TV offering to identify four titles to watch
The throw of the dice
Wash to Win
TVA is playing big by scheduling its cleaning competition against The Chiefs !. Which one will you choose to listen to live? The one hosted by Élyse Marquis which makes you salivate or the one piloted by Stéphane Bellavance who makes his competitors retch? One thing is certain, the first broadcast of Wash to Win (Quebec adaptation of a Danish format) is entertaining. The 16 candidates, “housekeeping aces” including a stylist, a landscaping contractor and a nurse, must take on two extreme cleaning challenges: cleaning up – the word is weak – a neglected BBQ (which includes a meatball of half-charred ground steak) and a dirty van. A Pixcom production (Indefensible) produced by Luc Sirois (Masked singers).
VAT, from Monday at 8 p.m.
The novelty
In Memoriam
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Evelyne Brochu, Éric Bruneau, Jean-Simon Leduc and Catherine Brunet in In Memoriam
The bereaved fans of Succession might love this series, which could be called an unofficial sequel to the popular HBO drama… if Logan had organized cruel and twisted games so that after his death, his children would tear each other apart to get his inheritance. Starring Evelyne Brochu, Éric Bruneau, Catherine Brunet and Jean-Simon Leduc, this psychological thriller imagined by Pierre-Marc Drouin (Reasonable doubt) is not jojo. But after the first episodes, our curiosity is piqued. Detail to note: the series self-discloses by displaying, at the start of the second episode, a message emphasizing that no animal has been mistreated. A creation by Marie-Claude Blouin and Félix Tétreault, the tandem behind Pet.
Crave (new episode every Thursday)
The return
It’s more than a garden
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Edith Cochrane and Emmanuel Bilodeau in It’s more than a garden
Not always easy, achieving your dream of self-sufficiency. Even when we are hyper motivated. Édith Cochrane and Emmanuel Bilodeau know something about this. Just like those who have been following their adventures since 2021 in this documentary series which chronicles their efforts to reduce their ecological footprint. In this fourth season, the actors invest – with their three children – the land they bought in Estrie, with the ambitious objective of carrying out three projects at the same time, including a traditional vegetable garden, a vegetable protein patch and a nourishing forest. “We want to go to the end of everything we can do,” explained the actress last Thursday. This week, the couple continues their quest with the help, among others, of Marie Thévard, author and self-sufficiency trainer, and Wen Rolland, ecological designer.
Unis TV, Thursday at 8 p.m.
The documentary
What Jennifer Did
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What Jennifer Did
The crime documentaries offered by Netflix usually tell fundamentally American news stories. Not this time. What Jennifer Did (in French, Jennifer’s truths) revisits a violent crime that occurred in Ontario in 2010, among a family originally from Vietnam. We’re talking about a brutal attack which leaves a traumatized young woman as the only witness… Without giving anything away (the title already says a lot), let’s say that this story hides another, as unexpected as it is twisted. An 86-minute feature film from the producers ofAmerican Nightmarean essential series of true crime which we devoured at the beginning of the year, directed by Jenny Popplewell (The Watts affair: chronicle of a family killing).
Netflix, starting Wednesday