An absolute rarity for general television: a foreign, French series that is broadcast in prime time on Rai 1, achieves good ratings and is shown again with the new seasons. Maybe it’s a fire that is slowly going out, but the comparisons between our Italian fiction – especially the yellow-pink ones with female protagonists – and this Morgane – Brilliant Detective, third season, which has just arrived on Rai 1, are interesting.
In France it was a television miracle, ten million viewers and the protagonist, Audrey Fleurot who becomes an absolute celebrity. she is there Morgane of the title, a bizarre example of an ordinary girl with a mundane job. But that’s because she can’t stop her life’s impulses, she has three children from two different men, she can handle them on her own and they have turned off the electricity in her house because of unpaid bills. And yet he has an IQ of 160 (in the original the series is called HPI, acronym for High Intellectual Potential), a monstrous photographic memory and a corresponding intuition. So she finds herself working as an advisor to the police in Lille, but because she’s insanely crazy, Morgane gets into one trouble after another.
The third season continues as she stands outside the police force itself and the fireproof inspector fulfills both of her love dreams (he’s also crazy). But everything is in full development. None of this would work if the protagonist wasn’t an irresistible pocket-sized Jessica Rabbit – but not too much – with an overwhelming physicality in every scene. The predominantly female authors allow themselves, and this time even more, vivid and dreamlike digressions in the often bizarre, constantly escalating plot.
There has been a loss of viewers in France, but we are still at seven million instead of ten million. Maybe it’s time to go back to the origins, which tasted above all of freshness and tangible fun without making too many demands. The plots surrounding the crimes aren’t bad.
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The third season is very new. But when Morgane makes a comparison between Italy and France and the resulting rivalry, two characters appear side by side on the screen: Sarkozy And Berlusconi. The French long for the good times.