I was at a private party with several influential people on Quebec television last weekend. And between three sips of Aperol Spritz, two puffs of a cigarette, and a sip of Taco King Guacamole (the best in town), what do you think guests were talking about?
Posted at 1:48 am. Updated at 8:15am.
After Bill C-11’s royal approval, who will force Netflix and the company to invest money in local production?
Media groups that buy large parts of large independent production companies such as Sphère, Pixcom or Déferlantes?
Facebook posts by Josélito Michaud that outdo each other in exaggerations and will soon lead to a shortage of incense burners?
No way. You are in the field. The liveliest discussions of the party revolved around whether we still loved each other at TVA, to the delight of my inner world, Lord.
“I’m totally addicted,” even confided to me one of the busiest screenwriters in Quebec show business, who you can’t imagine wondering if he’s more dependent or co-dependent in his relationship as a couple.
This season of “If We Still Loved Each Other,” which focuses on marital troubles, is coming to an end — there’s only one week of airtime left — and it doesn’t bode well for the future of the couple, made up of Janie and Lee, who are advocates for the Complaints on the blackboard.
At the same time, their embarrassment reflects an apparent desperation, particularly in the case of Lee, a 43-year-old man struggling with dull anger and feelings of depression, which he calms by smoking hash every night, alone at his bachelor party. Lee himself confesses his drug use to a Louise Sigouin, who digs deeper and deeper into her tool kit to mend this broken connection.
While we enjoyed poking fun at the atypical lifestyles of Janie and Lee at the start of the series, who never sleep in the same bed, this week we discovered the level of confusion that grips Lee. It wasn’t funny to hear him howling his discomfort on the chalet terrace.
Then, in the next scene, the sympathy we had for Lee was shattered by another pout and grunt. At his side, Janie, 40, freezes and keeps asking him the same questions, to which he never has a clear or audible answer. And Janie insists and insists and the old record is skipped.
They are brave — or reckless — the contestants of “If We Still Loved Each Other.” They reveal, to an average of 529,000 viewers, highly intimate matters such as the frequency or lack of sexuality between them in their sexual relationships and their masturbation habits that annoy some spouses.
PICTURE FROM THE SHOW
Emmanuelle and Jeremy
They also face harsh comments about the way they are raising their children, particularly Emmanuelle, 34, and Jérémie, 28, the last two of whom, Nolan and Éloi, are attracting much, much attention.
It’s dizzying, especially at dinner time, when the cacophony undermines even the advice of the subject teacher who’s called in to back up the 911 nanny.
Again, our sympathy for Emmanuelle varies by episode. On Wednesday night, Emmanuelle called Jérémie a loser at the restaurant and threatened one of her daughters, who defied her, to throw her into the fire, which was in fact a chimney fire broadcast on a television screen.
Replicating Emmanuelle’s teenage years? “Heille han, I’m going to fart the TV more than anything. “Not a very intelligent lady,” she said to her mother without batting an eyelid.
Emmanuelle’s response: “Where is she, my daughter? You know, the little three-year-old girl who was beautiful and doing well. what is this case »
Response from the second daughter, referring to her mother’s “dirty character,” “Are you saying we’re not beautiful?” It sounded like it, yes. Weakness.
PICTURE FROM THE SHOW
Natalie and Pierre
Fortunately, the unloved couple of the first few weeks, Pierre and Nathalie, are gaining strength, even if they continue to talk to each other like babies, my dear God, that’s something special. Pierre, 56, and Nathalie, 50, have reunited in a tantrism workshop that is as strange as it is effective. The work of the therapist Louise Sigouin works with them. On the other hand, our dear Nathalie is “still waiting for her wages”, as she keeps repeating.
It is something? Namely, his reward is a full-fledged sexual relationship with Pierre. Nathalie has been talking about it since day one, when she sat in front of Louise Sigouin, who was quick to tell her to calm that inner Chihuahua if she wanted to have sex.
Why do we know all these details of the daily life of total strangers? Because everything is filmed in “If we loved each other”. In addition, on Thursday evening we should know the outcome of the saga surrounding the bidet or butt flush toilet, which Pierre wanted to install but which Nathalie resisted with all the strength of her Hector dog.
Thank you life for these precious moments, gratitude, namaste and all other cottage slogans written on a barn wood hanger.