No, but what a great week at TVA. “Indéfendable” detective Maxime Dubois (Mathieu Baron) survived his food court shootout, and the first episode of “Si on s’aime” sparked a crush that ended with a romantic date at a painting spoon rest at the Céramic Café culminated in Laval.
Updated at 8:15am yesterday.
How can you generate so much TV happiness, right? I wonder. Seriously.
The story of the fake policeman with the terrible Indefensible wig will cost our brave Maxime Dubois, who is in love with the criminal lawyer Marie-Anne Desjardins (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé), dearly. This shootout scene was also very poorly choreographed and filmed, it was borderline haywire.
Max may have avoided carnage by shooting the disguised police officer, but he first shot and killed an unarmed young man, Nico (Anthony Parent-Castanha), son of police officer Jean-Pierre Gendron (Guy Jodoin).
And seeing how this Jean-Pierre Gendron, not to be confused with the character of Marc-André Bonenfant in the TV series “Alerts”, pampers his service weapon, we suspect that all this will not end in Kumbaya.
The mess involving Max Dubois consumed almost all of the airtime of the popular TVA daily, which got off to a slow start to its second season on Monday night. First, the writers dispatched in two or three lines the great drama that enveloped the miraculous resurrection of me Frédéric Legrand (Martin-David Peters) in the finale of “Indéfendable,” which aired last spring.
Only the young lawyer Inès Saïd (Nour Belkhiria) seemed, with good reason, concerned about the secret operation that staged the false death of Me Legrand, while her colleagues at the law firms of Lapointe, Macdonald and Desjardins continued to wander, so to speak, casually, between their blue desks and the “bullpen”.
Positive point: The show “Indefensible” received a new, more modern opening credits, less like a 1996 telenovela. Negative point: The new episodes highlighted less high-profile cases.
The story of the 33-year-old single mother, voucher giver, welfare recipient and grocery store chicken thief wasn’t the most exciting.
Gentle reality documentary
As far as docu-reality goes, If We Loved Each Other, the fourth season went smoothly, what a radical change, and no argumentative or divisive character irritated viewers, another achievement in itself.
High school teacher Marie-Josée, 48, and carpenter Julien, 44, experienced love at first sight, the intensity and electricity of which almost made therapist Louise Sigouin want to straighten her hair. It is the first time that two participants have thrown themselves into each other’s arms so quickly. You’re beautiful, wow, I think you’re so great, great, I’m good with you, ayoje, I love getting to know you, Julien pulled out the whole arsenal of compliments and Marie-Josée fell for it.
Honestly, it was borderline stupid. I don’t have a heart, I know.
If there is one lesson we can learn from so many hours invested in loving one another, it is that we must be wary of these too-quick impulses. Wound (insert here: shame, loneliness, or pride) that needs to be healed, the priestess of dualities, Louise Sigouin, would note.
After a thorough analysis of the four half-hours of If We Loved Each Other, I fear for the romantic potential between the manager Alexandre, 45 years old, and the family educator Julie, 44 years old. He loves sea kayaking, mountain biking and alpine ski touring. She doesn’t seem like the outdoorsy type at all. When Louise Sigouin noticed that Alexandre was having difficulty getting in touch with his emotional world, the separation alarm sounded.
On the other hand, there is good chemistry between Sylvain, 55 years old, a teacher and former truck driver, and Frédérique, also a racing bike enthusiast. They were adorable with their first glass of wine.
From the bedroom, commentators Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge and Émily Bégin returned to their two-seater sofa. And they barely touched their fruit and lemon cake plate, which was just waiting for something to happen, let’s see.
PHOTO CATHERINE LEFEBVRE, SPECIAL COLLABORATION
Julie Snyder
This means there is a lot going on… twice as much!
Come on, Double Occupation is preparing its export to France, where producer Julie Snyder has sold the adaptation rights to audiovisual giant Mediawan, whose extensive catalog includes big hits like Les Bracelets Rouge, HPI, Laflame and Call My Agent.
“The probability of a double appointment in France is 99%. They want to start production very quickly,” explains Julie Snyder, who did not specify which private channel would broadcast OD in France. It could be TF1, M6 or NRJ12.
Bosses at Mediawan, which bought Brad Pitt’s production company in December, visited the two double occupation villas in Andalusia where the next series is currently being filmed. Julie Snyder then traveled to Paris to finalize the contracts.
20 years ago, in September 2003, Occupation Double opened the doors of its first house, built on the Point-Zéro-sur-le-Lac estate in Blainville. The French group Mediawan also chose Véronique Cloutier’s Zénith format, developed by KOTV, in the winter.
I’m floating
With the book Molasses de fancy by Francis Ouellette.
One of the best Quebec novels of 2023, combining the worlds of Michel Tremblay and Heather O’Neill. The young narrator lives on Rue Poupart in south-central Montreal, surrounded by eccentric and lovable characters such as the homeless Frigo, the lesbian mother-in-law Ti-Crisse and the beautiful prostitute Chantale Choquette. This learning story, inspired by its author’s life, oscillates between the funny, the vulgar, the breathtaking and the downright raw. A great Polaroid from the 1970s and 1980s, in the heart of Faubourg à m’lasse, told in a colorful language.
Fancy molasses
The wick
216 pages
I avoid it
Rybelsus TV commercial.
My father told me about Rybelsus! Oh yes, Rybelsus, I’ll take some too! How ugly and obvious are these ads? It is mistakenly believed to be a super effective antidepressant because people who praise it smile until their jaws drop. But no. Rybelsus is more of a drug for type 2 diabetics whose side effect is weight loss. Like Ozempic, which also benefits from very effective marketing.