Paris (AFP)
The year 2020 will have been abundant in the playoffs to the point of not knowing where to look ... Here is a selection of favorites, to see ... or to review.
Strong women
Several series around strong female characters have made the buzz such as "The Lady's Game", the "most viewed miniseries in Netflix history".
It tells the dazzling trajectory of a gifted chess player addicted to tranquilizers trying to find her place in this very masculine environment.
A note (also on Netflix): "Unorthodox", inspired by a true story, about a young New Yorker (played by the Israeli Shira Haas) fleeing an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and "Kalifat", big success in Sweden , her country of origin, which explores the mechanisms of Islamist indoctrination through the journey of three young women.
With "Mrs America" (myCanal), we discover the tensions of American feminism in the 1970s between conservatives and liberals through a five-star cast, led by Oscar-winning star Cate Blanchett.
Poetic or comic UFOs
The retrofuturist sci-fi series, "Tales from the Loop", adapted from the work of a Swedish designer, seduces with its slow rhythm and its poetic tone over dreamlike landscapes populated by strange machines, on the contrary triumphant superheroes.
(Amazon Prime)
English humor strikes in "Inside N ° 9", cult series across the Channel hitherto unknown in France.
The 30-minute episodes, independent of each other, have the number 9 in common. Result?
Comic tales turning macabre, beaded with British irony.
(Arte.tv)
Another comic candy, "This way up", created and worn by the Irish Aisling Bea (the jaded wife of "Living with yourself") gives a smile for six short episodes with the more or less fine jokes of her thirty-something heroine who goes up the slope after a big depression.
(myCanal)
Reality and excess
A revelation, the British Michaela Coel was inspired by her experience to write, direct and perform "I May Destroy You", a plunge into the depths of trauma after rape.
A young writer, star of social networks, tries to reconstruct her assault during a nebulous evening.
Her journey questions feminism, discrimination, consent against a backdrop of daily life punctuated to excess by social networks, parties, dating apps and drugs.
(OCS)
Of love...
A successful novel by Irishwoman Sally Rooney (not yet translated into French), "Normal people" follows in twelve episodes the romantic relationship of a young couple, from high school to university.
This delicate portrait of Millennials looking for their way, mixes up all the themes of the moment (toxic relationships, social differences, consent ...) without overdoing it, thanks to the alchemy between the two actors, remarkable during sex scenes tours under the guidance of an intimacy coordinator, MeToo having been there (on Starzplay).
The web-series "Les amours solitaires", adapted from the eponymous book taken from Morgane Ortin's Instagram account, revisits the genre of letter-writing love through inspiring SMS exchanges between two twenty-year-olds.
We follow their passionate love story in the form of short pastilles.
(Arte.tv and France.TV)
... and French touch
Also in a short format, the "6.30 PM" web-series follows, for 5 minutes, two office colleagues on their work-home journey.
During a walk each evening, their relationship goes from annoyance to friendship to slip into something more intimate (Arte.tv).
Being funny while exploring the political mysteries of Brussels is the challenge taken up by "Parliament", a creation of Noé Debré, co-author of "Dheepan", Palme d'or 2015. Following in the footsteps of a young parliamentary assistant , the Franco-German-Belgian series paints a tasty gallery of political figures served by a European cast.
(France.TV)
"Inspired by real galleys", the anecdotes of "Narvalo", created by comedian Matthieu Longatte, cheerfully recount the crazy misadventures of suburban friends in a sometimes harsh everyday life but in a tone that is always lively and spicy.
(myCanal)
Those nostalgic for the 1980s will follow with delight "3615 Monique" which traces the beginnings of Minitel and erotic messaging through the sympathetic alliance of three inventive students, led by a calculating Noémie Schmidt ("Versailles", "Radin!") and determined to succeed.
(OCS)
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