Mental prison, confinements and lies in the replays of the week

Anya Taylor-Joy in Lady's Game, on Netflix -

There is not only the direct in life, there is also the replay.

From YouTube to Netflix, including replays of television channels and podcasts of radio stations,

 concocts a list of things to see, or review, listen to or listen to again every Sunday.

Go around in circles with "The game of the lady"

Sometimes, without warning, Netflix throws us a nugget.

This is the case with

(very poor translation of the expression

, an opening to chess).

This 7-part series follows the fate of chess prodigy Beth Harmon.

Orphan, quasi-sociopath, alcoholic (among other addictions), of course, but devilishly gifted at chess, the young woman will defeat one by one the men who will stand in front of her, on the other side of the game board.

The Lady's Game

is not so much a series about chess (although games, practices and tournaments are beautifully filmed) as it is a deep and empathetic portrayal of an extraordinary personality.

A prisoner of her neuroses, the young Beth Harmon escapes within the strict framework of the 64-square plateau.

We follow his shocked emancipation, from his 6 years to adulthood, thanks to the wonderful incarnation of Anya Taloyr-Joy.

Getting lost in the web-documentary "The cloister and the prison"

All and all cloistered… Certainly.

But have you ever thought that the difference between cloister and prison is only a question of point of view.

And history.

The web-documentary

combines videos, interviews, maps and multiple archives around the issue of confinement in time throughout history.

From the case of Clairvaux, an abbey lasting seven centuries (therefore voluntary confinement), which became a prison in 1808 (imprisonment undergone),

explores places of confinement in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the 1930s, including Mont Saint Michel for example.

The fruit of several years' work carried out by historians (Falk Bretschneider, Julie Claustre, Isabelle Heullant-Donat and Elisabeth Lusset), this web-documentary stands out for the clarity and beauty of its visualization.

Finally, note that Clairvaux Abbey still houses a prison today.

The penitentiary center will cease its activity in 2022 and a call for ideas has been launched to find out how to occupy this vacated space.

A museum of containment perhaps?

Lock in the enemy with "The Americans"

Are you stuck at home?

Tell yourself it could be worse, you could be stuck with your worst enemies (without access to streaming platforms).

This is the case with the Jennings family, an ordinary American couple from the 1980s, except that they are in fact Russian undercover spies…

is, without a doubt, one of the ten best series of the past decade .

Throughout its six seasons all excellent and intense, the series documents the Cold War but mainly deals with the terror of being parents.

Our couple (really in love? That's a stake) have two children who ignore who their parents really are, and the brutality of their world.

Raising your children in a lie to spare them the horror ... The series, now available in full on Prime Video, will never get old.

Follow the musical thread in the labyrinth of "What"

Among the host of excellent podcasts produced by RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse),

is perhaps one of the most poetic.

What is

?

A program by Francesco Biamonte which puts a word to music in each episode: a concept, a place, a color, an animal… The episode devoted to the Labyrinth is a thwarted but not annoying stroll from Bach to Migeti via Sonar.

What does a musical labyrinth look like?

Do you get lost in a symphony?

Do you have to follow the voice to find the exit?

A labyrinth that we would never want to get out of ...

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