Competition reality TVs like Survivor Quebec, Get me out here! or Big Brother Celebrities Are they replacing traditional televisions in the consumption habits of telephages here?
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These popular programs at the Occupation double or traitors Significantly use the codes of the classic television with characters of angels or demons, tons of reversals, surprising conspiracies, heartbreaking betrayals, strong emotions and bloody rivalries.
We follow power games to Survivor Quebec Like the private detective Claude Gagnon (Nathalie Madore) talls her suspects in Indefensible : very, very close.
And during this period of digital scattering and consumption of parts in the room, reality TV, which charms a younger audience, have a significant advantage compared to fictional works: you have to look at them live to avoid the many disclosure. Advertising and sponsors love it.
Bell Média, owner of the Crave platform and the Noovo chain, adds another title to its well -stocked catalog with Go simple: reality TVa hybrid between Traitors et Secret Storya French production where participants all hid a huge secret.
As its name suggests, Go simple Drift from the first season of the excellent thriller “Agathachristian” by Annie Piérard, Bernard Dansereau and Étienne Piérard-Dansereau. Besides, two of the characters inGo simpleex-police officer Thomas (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) and the former Eli investor (rapper Samian), act as co-pilotes of this spring novelty, whose first three episodes are released on the Crave platform on Wednesday.
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Jean-Nicolas Verreault
In tribute to the first part ofGo simplea helicopter deposits the 10 “visitors” of this reality TV in a rustic chalet with a wooden and brown decor so common in the prefinity suburbs of the 1970s.
These 10 candidates, who are “ordinary” people and not stars, disembark in Val-Beaulac with each a secret buried in their luggage. Like: “I did four years in prison”, “I was in a sect for 19 years”, “I witnessed a double attempted murder in my family” “I am in a hole” or “I have already won a reality TV”.
In fact, the only known competitor ofGo simple: reality TV Isabelle Lagacé, who was arrested and imprisoned in Australia for importing, in the summer of 2016, around thirty kilos of cocaine. To mix those who have seen it at Everyone talks about it or in docusery Cocaïne, prison & likesIsabelle Lagacé calls himself Sylvia. As for the reality TV winner, I had had no memories of his passage on our screens.
In its form, Go simple: reality TV looks a lot like Traitors. The players live in camera and investigate each other. The ultimate goal of these 10 participants? Protect their big secrets until the very end and hope to win a potential prize pool of $ 50,000.
In each of the eight of an hour episodes, Samian directs a group physical test (launch of rings, construction of the gateway), which allows the winners to escape the hatch, which really opens under their feet. Because yes, as in Loups-Garous, a murderer goes to the attack after dark.
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Samian
And to obtain the privilege of zigilling a threatening opponent, the assassin must win a more “psychological” test, which reveals a bunch of astonishing and very intimate information on the competitors.
In the first episode, the candidates must associate the real annual salary with the photo of the good player. Who is the poorest of the group, who is the richest? The range varies between $ 27,000 and $ 245,000. And yes, this is the real income of the participants.
In the second episode, it is even more embarrassing and uncomfortable: the challenge consists in estimating and twinning the real intellectual quotient of players – which was measured beforehand – in their photo. So the IQ of candidates ofGo simple Oscille between 85 and 133, while the average revolves around 100. Again here, we wonder: who is the dunce, who is the group’s genius? The least “brilliant” of competitors takes this revelation well.
We are used to hearing, in reality TVs, confessions on sex and love, but never on payments of pay or on the intelligence of guinea pigs. It remains destabilizing and super crisp, it must be said.
It is not necessary to have looked at the miniseries Go simple To appreciate its derived reality TV. Like Karine Vanasse who embodies a baroness in TraitorsJean-Nicolas Verreault and Samian Coaniment by slipping into the shoes of their characters ofGo simple. They are therefore stupid, directives, cold and merciless.
There are many regulations to explain in Go simple: reality TVa format that has been created here and which has already been sold at the Géant Fremantle (Love is in the meadow, What a talent!). Once the mechanics of the game are clearer, we take it all over and the potential of this program is deployed before our eyes. With a stronger budget, the events could be frankly spectacular.
Jean-Nicolas Verreault and Samian would benefit from injecting more sarcasm and black humor into their interventions. Because when they get started, it’s roughly effective.
In the first episode, Samian asked Isabelle Lagacé, nicknamed the “cocaine babe”, if she hides illegal things in her suitcases. His answer? Not this time. Big flashback of the Lévesque sisters in Rome, anyway.
