The Autumn Heroes (Hugo’s version)

The heroes who save us from the gray boredom of autumn don’t all wear capes or Lycra suits.

They slip into our screens in various forms: a friendship bracelet from Mexico in If we loved each othera threatening letter from the Viper in Alerts or a Nissan car in each of the episodes ofBefore the crash.

So, what objects, characters or events have caught your eye on Quebec TV in recent months? Here is my personal list, much shorter than that of the feminine criteria (professional, sporty, but not too much) that Alexandre is looking for in Louise Sigouin’s office.

The two hairdressers 5^e Rank

With them, Valmont transforms into Fargo. And our two happy hairdressers, Guylaine (Catherine Paquin-Béchard) and Nancy (Marie-Ève ​​Pelletier), are now stealing the show from the good mechanic Jean-Michel (Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi) in the Radio-Canada agropolice soap opera. They talk loudly, move sports bags full of money and always get into trouble, between chewing gum. Quick, let’s give them permanence – and permanent one, while we’re at it.

The teleprompter of fun

Last spring, Marc Labrèche introduced a hilarious segment to I am coming to you, where he reads, with a guest, unpublished texts which appear on the teleprompter. Monday evening, this Champagne Showbiz portion in the company of Josée Deschênes gave rise to crazy gags about Marc Hervieux, Star Academy and Éric Lapointe. No wonder Martin Matte used this idea for his own TVA talk show. Finally, something already established, which does not have to be recalibrated!

The anti-bedbug suit

I’ve had bedbugs in my house twice (what a nightmare!) and I’ve never worn a spacesuit as futuristic as that of nurse Audrey (Samantha Fins) in STAT. As if she were preparing to defuse a nuclear bomb on a territory at war, contaminated by Ebola. You will tell me that I don’t live in a hospital, it’s true. But after that of Milwaukee for rabies, the Radio-Canada soap opera implemented a new, even more stressful protocol: that of bedbugs. Thank you, France Castel.

The snacks at If we loved each other

While singles refine their head-heart-body connection with therapist Louise Sigouin, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge and Émily Bégin peck from a buffet of snacks that has never been so varied in five seasons. Chips and salsa, berries, popcorn, various nuts, bowl of pretzels, small cake, cheese, the host-commentators are enjoying themselves a lot more than Marie-Josée and Julien in front of a tub of maple taffy on the snow.

The ice ballerina Masked singers

Often, beauty lies in simplicity. Of all the mascots that paraded at Masked singers this fall, the ice ballerina remains the most sparkling with her outfit made from disco ball shards. And the person hiding in this mirrored costume has a crystal clear and accurate voice. Julie Ringuette, is that you?

Microdose of magic mushrooms

Since he microdose magic mushrooms, the friendly Patrick (Mani Soleymanlou) ofBefore the crash aa) reconnected with his eros, b) found meaning in his work as an investment banker and c) put the pieces of his broken family back together. The Press obviously does not encourage drug consumption, but if their ingestion leads to delicious scenes like that of Monday evening, of the type Time of Jesters, treat yourself, fellow screenwriters. How many pills do you want?

The parakeet called Hector

Fortunately, the authors ofIndefensible quickly clipped the wings of this avian intrigue, which was not flying high. At the psychiatric institute, Pierre Poirier (Hubert Proulx) was enjoying feathered happiness with his parakeet Hector until the rumor of his transfer to prison sent him into a panic. Result ? A 100% improbable hostage situation, where the captives looked like they were tied with phentex. And the murder weapon? A piece of flower pot, which deserves just the pot, not the flowers.

Babies in our series

Baby Gabin in One way ticket was the quietest child in the history of Quebec television, passing into the arms of each of the characters without ever uttering a cry. At the opposite end of the spectrum, there is baby Océane in Indefensible, whose cries were horrible when the AMBER alert was triggered. Note to actors: It shows when you’re handling a swaddled doll instead of a real baby. Rigor. Still on the subject of babies, do you think that the child that Joe (Céline Bonnier) and Luc (Stéphane Gagnon) had in the town could today be the redheaded journalist (David Noël) of Townsman ? Nostradumas polishes his tarot cards and prostrates himself before the triple goddess.

I levitate

With Maple by David Goudreault

The author of the excellent trilogy The beast sign one thriller at a time trash and truculent, carried by the endearing and vulgar Maple, a 57-year-old former prostitute who retrains as an amateur detective. A maniac, nicknamed the Ticker, terrorizes the sex workers of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Maple’s knowledge of the “field” gives him a head start on the cops. This is a punchy, rough, funny, raw and surprising book.

Maple

David Goudreult

Stanké

240 pages

I avoid it

The expression “in the background”

For several years, we have heard these three words everywhere, on TV, on the radio or in our office conversations. More. Able. Basically, we all say it without realizing it, but it’s extremely unpleasant once we realize it. Basically, what I want to say is that we should collectively wean ourselves from this language tic.