Published at 2:55 am. Updated at 7:15 a.m.
Clear the meeting room, STAT or Indefensible, it doesn’t matter, it’s time to chat about our favorite forensic mysteries. By riding a stationary bike, like Emmanuelle St-Cyr (Suzanne Clément), who is still in the saddle, or Léo Macdonald (Sébastien Delorme), who resumed training on Wednesday.
First, let’s remove some feces from our hearts. No longer a match for the insufferable Rosalie (Marine Johnson) and her boyfriend Francis (Antoine Desrochers), the unsavory medical student who knows everything. They appear on the screen in STAT and I clench my teeth in pain. Clear the floor – and the poor dolphins’ apartment!
The same feeling of desperation towards Alix Forgues (Karelle Tremblay), who bounced around Saint-Vincent’s emergency room more often than fake cancer patient Anthony (Félix-Antoine Cantin), who surely read an entire library in the hospital waiting room last season.
At least the revelation of Alix’s secret, which has been brewing for a very long time, has lifted the veil on all the lies she has told. Like her mother, who died of an overdose, Alix prostitutes herself on behalf of her stepfather Denis (Maxime Denommée). She stays silent to protect her half-sister and prevent her from ending up in foster care.
Now another white code in Saint-Vincent: the future of the surgeon Isabelle Granger (Geneviève Schmidt), my favorite STAT character next to Emmanuelle (Suzanne Clément). Will she ever return from her professional stay in Saudi Arabia? You certainly suspect that the author Marie-Andrée Labbé will not give up such a successful character and appreciated by the audience.
If Geneviève Schmidt temporarily gave up her stethoscope, it was because she was starring in the film Les-s-sœurs by René Richard Cyr, which led to a scheduling conflict with STAT. So no, Isabelle Granger will not disappear from the soap opera, she particularly has to settle matters of the heart with Justin (Alexandre St-Martin), the brother of intensive care doctor Gabriel Lemaire (Jean-Nicolas Verreault).
Several intriguing cases have passed through Saint-Vincent’s emergency rooms in recent weeks, including that of the 530-pound giant, the kindly Luc (Martin Paquette), who underwent an aortic dissection. The scene where Céline (Tammy Verge) confessed to her son William (Thomas Derasp-Verge, her real-life son) that she was about to die was heartbreaking. And the complicity between doctors Jacob Faubert (Lou-Pascal Tremblay) and Pascal St-Cyr (Normand D’Amour, whom I adore) was brilliantly portrayed in this storyline.
A spy tells me that we haven’t stopped crying in the company of the enchanting Céline and her son William. Her story will be concluded in the next episodes.
Now it is clear that the flirtation between the investigator Claude Coupal (surprising for Caroline Néron) and the oncologist Pascal St-Cyr will continue this autumn. There was as much electricity between these two as there was at Romaine Dam.
STAT doesn’t turn red, it’s impressive. On Thursday night, a fentanyl addict (Émile Mailhiot) shot a security guard before escaping in a stolen ambulance, while traumatized army patient Fabien Proulx (Hugo B. Lefort) performed a cricothyrotomy on a woman in respiratory distress… with Philippe Dupéré’s (Patrick Labbé) fountain pen ).
I mean, how can you turn off the heart monitor with so much action in such a short amount of time?
PICTURE FROM THE INDEFENDABLE SHOW
Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Antoine L’Écuyer in “Indefensible.”
On Indefensible, the trial of Jordan Gauthier (Antoine L’Écuyer), who stabbed his girlfriend (Jeane Landry-Proulx) and killed his mother-in-law (Marie-Hélène Thibault), was probably the most successful of the season. Over several episodes, our opinion of the guilt or innocence of Océane’s young father skillfully fluctuated depending on the details added to the story.
This complex case was also a great playground for criminal lawyer Marie-Anne Desjardins (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé) and her Crown opponent, Me Sonia Cadet (Marilyse Bourke), a humane, strict and formidable prosecutor. And a lot nicer than Me Biron (Marie-Laurence Lévesque).
On the other hand, it was time for the writers of “Indefensible” to focus on the matter of the old gentleman who was hanging around to consult Léo (Sébastien Delorme). It was half burlesque.
Like STAT last year, “Indefensible” investigates the case of a young star athlete suspected of sexual assault, soccer player Logan Daviault-Côté (Anthony Bouchard). And who was the star hockey player involved in a gang rape in STAT? Henri Picard, who appeared in this week’s “Indefensible,” where he plays Tom Dorion, the author of a deadly supermarket robbery.
Are you confused? Certainly not as much as Ti-Bill (Jean Maheux), who is painfully recovering from his stroke.
I’m floating
Featuring Losing Your Mind by Heather O’Neill
A magnificent book about an enchanting and toxic female friendship that takes root in the Victorian Golden Mile and extends into the streets of the slums of the lower part of the city. There is Marie Antoine, blonde, radiant and rich. There’s Sadie Arnett, brunette, nihilistic and gothic. A dangerous bond develops between the two teenagers, oscillating between deep-seated hatred and devouring passion. They are forcibly separated, find each other again ten years later and the two wonderful friends of the 19th century will change the fate of several of their Montreal sisters, book by book. I liked everything.
I avoid it
The Hyundai Wah
Who really understands the meaning of this word that resonates in every automaker’s television commercial in which narrator Marilou listens to her own songs on Spotify? We do Wah! We’re making our SUV even more insane! It means absolutely nothing. Yes, we know “Wah” means “Wow” in Korean, we’ve heard that for so many seasons. But in our heads we tend to hear, “Stop it!” Excuse them.