"Squid Game" tops the Top 2021 series for readers of "20 Minutes"

• The 2021 series year was marked by the phenomenal success of the Korean series

   Squid Game

  on Netflix.

• Marvel unsheathed in 2021 its first series for Disney +,

  WandaVision.

• Discover the Top 10 2021 series from the 20 Minutes editorial team and the readers who are members of the “20 Minutes Séries” Facebook group.

The beginning of the end of the hegemony of the American series?

The series year 2021 was marked by the unexpected and phenomenal success of the Korean series

, created by Hwang Dong-hyeok.

Totaling 1,650,450,000 hours viewed in the first twenty-eight days,

became the best launch and most viewed series of all time on Netflix, dethroning American series

by Shonda Rhimes.

Squid Game

follows 456 over-indebted people who will participate in a competition based on children's games.

The winner will pocket some 33 million euros, but only the latter will survive the fatal trials.

Exhilarating games in

mode

which obtained a satisfaction rating of 8/10 on IMDb, and 94% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and which rise to the top of the Top 10 2021 readers who are members of the “20 Minutes” Facebook group Series ”.

On the podium,

, also available on Netflix, an apocalyptic series against a background of a pandemic but resolutely optimistic, takes second place.

The year 2021 was marked by the arrival of the first Marvel series on Disney +.

, an ode to the sitcom in an alternate reality and probably the most original, daring and meta work produced by Kevin Feige, takes third place in our readers' ranking.

At the top of the Editor's Top 10,

, an HBO miniseries, available in France on OCS, in which Kate Winslet, winner of an Emmy for her performance, excels in her role as battered cop investigating a murder and a disappearance in a small town in Pennsylvania.

It's a Sin

, a British miniseries available on MyCanal, climbs to the second step of the podium.

This very personal masterpiece by award-winning British screenwriter and producer Russell T Davies chronicles the joys and sorrows of a group of gay men in homophobic London of the 1980s, reeling from the onset of AIDS.

At the third step of the editorial podium, season 2 of the French medical series

, an original creation by Canal +, in which the former doctor Thomas Lilti paints the portrait of a bloodless French hospital system.

A series that takes on its full political dimension in a year 2021, alas, still marked by the pandemic.

The Top 10 readers who are members of the “20 Minutes Séries” Facebook group

Top 10 from the editorial staff of "20 Minutes"

To complete the picture, here is the ranking of journalists from the Culture service of

and their favorite series.

Laure Beaudonnet's top 10:

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His favorite: "Dopesick"

An all-powerful big pharma that enriches itself on the health of the American middle class. Sounds like a conspiratorial theory and yet Purdue Pharma initiated an unprecedented wave of overdoses in the 1990s by bringing to market OxyContin, an ultra-addicting opioid distributed like candy to injured workers. . Created by Danny Strong, also creator of

, the series takes audiences to a world where the wealthy and immoral Sackler family fools medical personnel about the real effects of their drug, cleared by the US health authority, for themselves. put them in their pockets. As thrilling as it is dramatic,

, available on Disney + Star, goes behind the scenes of this pharmaceutical scandal and relentlessly shows the social collapse of part of the American population - and even some doctors - as the sales numbers for this opioid soar. arrow.

To see urgently.

Benjamin Chapon's top 10:

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His favorite: "In therapy"

The success of

, available on Arte.tv, works on a simple principle.

Besides the quality of writing, of interpretation - blah blah ... - the main part of the guilty pleasure remains the relief to note that there are people more

than us.

And that, these days, is very reassuring.

Following these fictitious therapies from week to week (except for the crazy - sorry for the psychophobia - who did this in

mode

, we judge you) will undoubtedly have allowed this super Freudian (and therefore, shit) year to have some semblance of meaning.

Anne Demoulin's top 10:

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His favorite: "The White Lotus"

Almost ten years after the unforgettable

, Mike White signs a jubilant new satirical comedy! 

follows the wealthy clients and staff of a luxury hotel in Hawaii.

Under the veneer of comedy, soap and mystery,

addresses inequality and corruption, and all forms of suffering and cruelty (major and minor, insidious and blatant) that they entail.

A biting series that unleashes contemporary hypocrisies, punctuated by moments of intense grace and sublimated by the intoxicating and anxiety-provoking music of Cristobal Tapia de Veer (who will never come out of the mind of anyone who has seen the series).

Vincent Julé's top 10:

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His favorite: "Scenes From a Marriage"

After

and

, author and director Hagai Levi continues to probe the modern couple, adapting the monument

by Ingmar Bergman.

It is of course a question of seeing how society and therefore relations have changed and evolved in forty years, but also and above all to question the possibility, or impossibility, of reinventing love.

available on OCS, is also a masterclass by Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, where, by its almost theatrical arrangement, the actors never really disappear behind their characters.

This creates a beautiful and dizzying mise en abyme, on how fiction illuminates our lives.

Fabien Randanne's top 10:

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His favorite: “Généra + ion”

Stopped at the end of a season,

, available on MyCanal, joins the list of major teen series canceled too early alongside

and

.

This series focuses on the friendly and romantic relationships of a group of predominantly LGBT high school students in Anaheim, California.

The screenplay was written by 19-year-old Zelda Barnz and her father Dan.

She's a lesbian, he's gay: their respective experiences and points of view have fueled the various intrigues addressing both issues related to sexual orientation and the shock of generations.

But above all,

features deeply endearing characters, whom we would never want to leave.

The top 10 of Clément Rodriguez:

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His favorite: “Succession” S3

After a two-year hiatus, you have to dive back into the bath of

available on OCS, and its financial, political and legal scheming.

The water temperature was only lukewarm during the first episodes, with the impression of standing still without grasping all the issues.

Then the fiction offered us the fifth episode, that of panic in the Roy clan when the patriarch seems to lose his mind.

From then on, we say to ourselves that we are witnessing a great moment of television until the

offered by characters that we are never quite sure to love or totally hate, unlike the dialogues as well chiseled as 'a Shakespearean betrayal.

Clio Weickert's top 10:

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His favorite: "UFO (s)"

It's cold and ugly. A global pandemic has immobilized and terrorized the whole world for a year already. Bonus: a curfew forbids you to set foot outside after 6 p.m. This is unfortunately not the bad scenario of a TV series but the context of the 3rd wave (or the 4th? We get lost…) during which UFO (s) came out on Canal +. And what a breath of fresh air! Direction the 1970s, at the heart of the Geipan shock cell which investigates unidentified flying objects. We follow the wanderings of a band of sweet dreamers - carried in particular by Melvil Poupaud and Daphné Patakia -, ready to move heaven and earth to unravel the mystery around a flamingo. It's completely crazy, absurdly funny. A psychedelic journey into the world of the seventies and the flying saucers,punctuated by the electronic notes of Thylacine. Do you see in the distance looming the rotten back to school that awaits us after the holidays? It's not too late to catch up with UFO (s) and do yourself some good, while waiting for season 2 and the next wave.

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