– wow…
– Réjean Tremblay launching a TV series in Colombia?
– It really looks like TOUT CACHÉ Tremblay…
– As if he were talking about the ADULT-È-RE conflict between Renaud Lavoie and Louis Jean …
– Mixed with COCA-Ï-NE releases by Brandon Prust, Maripier Morin and Alex Galchenyuk…
– Even Maripier Morin’s new boyfriend is featured in the series…
– ATTABOY…
– Fasten your hood.
– It will BREW….
My IQ, already affected by the emptiness of Love Island, is, quite correctly, while watching the sulphurous thriller Fake Profile from Netflix, one of the most popular series on the entire planet for three weeks, not increased. writes Hugo Dumas from La Presse…
At the same time, educating viewers for the Mensa admission tests isn’t part of the frivolous and hilarious mission of this Colombian-accented “Fatal Attraction” soap opera, available in French, English and Spanish.
Is it completely unbelievable, unintentionally funny and torn to the bone? Naturally. Did I devour all ten episodes of Fake Profile in just two days? Absolutely yes. Can not stop.
Wrong profile, it’s a really bad, good show that completely takes its telenovela basis based on unlikely reversals, which causes spontaneous howls in front of our screens. Well no, well no, let’s see, it can’t be that the authors went there!
The screenwriters not only went there, they drove the mushroom there, even if that means sacrificing even the slightest aspect of reality in this family saga, in which everyone looks far too good for their own good.
Repeat adultery, daring threesomes, drugs hidden in drawers, incest, sleazy suicides, hidden camera spying, colossal inheritance at stake, mistaken identities, wild looks galore and bisexual psychopaths on the loose – Fake Profile ticks all the boxes of the luxury soap , and more.
The cheesy finish is a masterpiece of soap extra au gratin and free from any claim. There’s nothing logical about Faux Profil, but what a ride it offers, it’s mind-blowing.
Each of the storylines provides a character, male or female, with an unsubtle excuse to undress or climb out of the shower in a small towel. The many sex scenes spill over into the similerotic B-movie, and unlike The Idol, it feels like that choice was wanted and accepted.
And history, right you ask? It starts in Las Vegas, thanks to the Tinder application. Nurse Camila, of Mexican origin, meets Fernando Castell, a plastic surgeon who operates in a prestigious clinic in Colombia, and it’s love at first sight.
This lightning-fast and very carnal long-distance relationship takes four months before the truth emerges. Camila doesn’t work as a nurse, but as a dancer in a burlesque cabaret on the Strip. It’s a mini-lie compared to Fernando, not necessarily named Fernando, who lives a double life in Cartagena, Colombia.
Since we’re in a soap opera and nowhere else, the great Camila flies to Cartagena and rents the house next door to handsome Fernando’s, in a private community of ultra-rich people who wear linen clothes that never crease.
Wow, here. What money does stripper Camila use to pay her exorbitant rent? And how is it possible that … I’m holding you up, you’re asking too many relevant questions and missing the point.
Camila is guided by a single mission: to destroy Fernando’s life in Colombia and expose his deception. Don’t push the reflection any further. With impressive efficiency and a mad look, our Camila joins the circle of the mysterious Fernando, who runs in a powerful family led by Pedro Ferrer, a real estate magnate and Al Pacino from the Grévin Museum.
And in the land of Shakira and Maluma, things are about to change. This Pedro Ferrer, wearing his sunglasses indoors, is pulling mighty strings and his entire entourage ends up being cuckoo by calling himself a whore, a bastard, or some old shit.
All this against a hyper-dramatic musical backdrop modeled after that of Succession, with a collection of whiskey glasses and an abuse of voice memos left in mobile phones.
Don’t Jump: A vulnerable and weak character in the False Profile can enter Jump and Deviation mode without warning, just like that. It’s even encouraged, just like the opposite, when a finite lunatic turns into a heroic vigilante between two fake business meetings, the outcome of which doesn’t matter to us.
One of the main actors of Faux Profil, Mauricio Henao, who plays the gay restaurateur Adrian, looks like two drops of water to Jean-Philippe Perras, Maripier Morin’s friend. It’s unsettling.
We agree that the Faux profil series will not win any prestigious awards and will not appear on the lists of the best productions of 2023. That’s not the goal either.
There’s clearly a market for these steamy soap operas full of amazing twists, burning secrets, and forbidden sex.
You didn’t emerge any brighter from viewing Faux Profil, but you will have been entertained, yes, and a little elated too, between ourselves, there’s no point in denying it at this stage of intimacy.