SERIELAND RECO / ADVICE: The third season of "The Kominsky Method" is finally available on Netflix.
She continues the adventures of Sandy, played by Michael Douglas, an old actor who has become a coach for young actors.
Inseparable from his agent and friend Norman, he tries to stay in the game despite the inconvenience of old age ... This joyful comedy, very well played, continues to make us go from laughter to tears.
This is the crush of Thomas Destouches, series journalist for Télécâble Sat Hebdo.
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This week, in SERIELAND, Thomas Destouches, series journalist for Télécâble Sat Hebdo, advises you on the third season of “The Kominsky Method”, a series as comical as it is moving carried by Michael Douglas.
What is the series about?
The series centers on the character of Sandy Kominsky, an old comedian who vaguely rose to fame long ago.
He has now become a teacher for apprentice actors dreaming of stars.
During all these years, he never lost contact with Norman, his agent and closest friend.
With Norman, he contemplates old age, the end of life and all its small and big inconveniences.
Their friendship is touching, solid and nourished by unfiltered sincerity.
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Why should you watch
The Kominsky Method
?
>> Because it's a series that plays with our emotions
The secret of The Kominsky Method?
Make us go from laughter to tears.
If this series is to be classified in the genre of comedy, it is nonetheless moving.
The characters are constantly haunted by the consciousness of death ... As a result, fiction always advances on a crest between humor and wave of emotion.
As proof, this third season opens with the burial of one of the central characters.
During the ceremony, in her farewell speech, his last lover, played by Jane Seymour, the eternal interpreter of Dr Quinn female doctor, sells the sexual performances of the deceased ... In turn confusing and moving, this speech reflects the humor of the series.
>> Because we are delighted to find Michael Douglas
The series is carried by the excellent Michael Douglas.
The Streets of San Francisco, In pursuit of the green diamond, Wall Street, Traffic, The Game, Basic Instinct ... He has appeared in many cult films and has established himself as a major figure in American cinema.
Today 76 years old, he signs a strong performance.
This role of aging actor is a sort of mise en abyme.
The actor manages, through this character, to laugh at his own future death and to take height on the legacy he will leave.
The Kominsky method created by Chuck Lorre
3 seasons, 22 episodes of 30 minutes,
available on Netflix