Autumn is the time of year when you make yourself comfortable on the living room armchair. Would you like to watch a good series or film from the Netflix catalog? Here are a few ideas.
Posted at 4:00 p.m.
Virgin River
Virgin River is a calming, calm and comforting series in which mutual aid and optimism are activated when disaster strikes. At $3 million per episode, equivalent to the budget for an hour of The Night Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up, Virgin River is the most cost-effective television anxiolytic to produce. And the recipe is automatically renewed every year.
Hugo Dumas
Sell the OC
Still on Netflix, I devoured the second season of Selling the OC, Selling Sunset’s little beach sister, in one sitting. Honestly, this romantic real estate reality show is being consumed like a bag of chips. Quickly and with great regret.
Hugo Dumas
Barracuda Queens
What a great discovery this Swedish miniseries Barracuda Queens from Netflix, halfway between Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring and a series about teenagers à la Euphoria. Because Barracuda Queens only has six 30-minute episodes, it can be devoured in a single evening in English or French. Excellent entertainment.
Hugo Dumas
Painkiller
“Painkiller,” available in French and English, can be swallowed in one sitting, despite the irritants that punctuate the six hour-long episodes. It’s easier to give up when the issue is so strong.
Hugo Dumas
Heart stopper 2
The eight episodes of the second act of the Heartstopper series are bursting with tenderness and sweetness, which contrasts with the ultra-trashy trend that currently prevails in series aimed at teenagers. Coming out is a significant part of Heartstopper 2’s plot. Should you give in to popular pressure and come out immediately, or follow your own pace, even if that means staying hidden longer? These tensions are addressed with great sensitivity.
Hugo Dumas
They cloned Tyrone
The performances of the three actors do not make “They Cloned Tyrone” a farce. John Boyega (the most recent Star Wars trilogy, The Woman King) plays Fontaine with a pent-up anger that he only releases momentarily. This restraint is in complete contrast to Jamie Foxx (Ray, Django Unchained) and Teyonah Parris (Chi-Raq, If Beale Street Could Talk), who form a pimp and hilarious duo. Their incessant insults, their countless references to popular culture, their Olympian repartee. They are merciless but vulnerable. Very nice compositions.
Pascal LeBlanc
Bastard on earth
Diane Morgan stole every scene in After Life, the Ricky Gervais comedy in which she played Kath, the eccentric office worker and painkiller of Tony (Ricky Gervais). That’s why we’re seduced by Cunk on Earth (Planète Cunk in French), a parody documentary series in which the British actress, comedian and author reprises her role as Philomena Cunk, a silly and ill-prepared presenter and commentator. In five episodes, she interviews world history experts, armed with silly – but hilarious – questions like: “Was the invention of writing significant or was it a flash in the pan like rap metal?” »
Marc-André Lemieux