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Back to the “real” at Series Mania

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The home page of the site of the Séries Mania festival which ended this Friday, March 25 in Lilles.

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By: Amaury de Rochegonde Follow

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Series Mania, the biggest series festival in Europe, ended this Friday, March 25 by showing some nuggets and trends around a strong axis: the return to reality.

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As with

, the psy series with 53 million videos viewed on Arte.tv, there is a first and a second season in the world of series, just as there is a before and after Covid.

season 2 thus evokes a world coming out of confinement, with the health crisis in the background.

The series will be visible on March 31 first on the Arte.tv platform then, from April 7, on the Arte channel, a sign of an order of priorities that has changed.

The impact of the health crisis

Judging by the catalog presented in Lille, at Séries Mania, the pandemic is not an obsession of screenwriters.

But the real, yes!

In 

, we do find an apocalyptic epidemic on HBO Max, but it is the story of the survivors of a devastating flu.

A bit as if the authors were reluctant to deal with the Covid from which we all wish to escape.

As for medical series, we find on Canal+ a humorous doctor with Ben Wishow, in

, by Adam Kay for the BBC, but unlike

, he is a doctor who crashes and cries in locker rooms.

Above all, he struggles with sleep to respond to the endless emergencies of the British public hospital.

Reality goes beyond fiction and fiction is inspired more than ever by reality.

We see it with the series

 by Fanny Herrero, the director of

, on the world of stand-up.

But also from April 5 on OCS with

 which deals with Operation Barkhane.

The authors of

, Thibault Valetoux and Frédéric Krivine, follow the daily lives of young French soldiers tracking down Islamist terrorists in Mali.

Fiction-reality

A study by Glance/Nota has shown that in recent years, the big hits are called

on gigolos in Belgium,

which questions masculinity,

, a Korean series about a secret society that wants to correct injustice social or the Brazilian

, which shows environmental activists in struggle with a mining company in the Amazon.

In Colombia, the promising 

 is interested in the partition of a city between the rich who have access to water and the poor who are deprived of it.

We can also cite the true story on Disney+ of

, who died in France after a demonstration in 1986. Or

 on the birth of the Rap group NTM with Joey Star on Arte and Netflix.

But among the discoveries of Séries Mania on fiction-reality, a remarkable production is announced with

, the German series by Ben Von Rönne which tells the first six months of investigation after the assassination in Lebanon of Rafik Hariri in 2005 .

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