The series Worshipbroadcast on Prime Video, goes behind the scenes of the reality TV phenomenon Loft Story.
It’s not necessarily glorious, but French television in the 2000s was marked, if not revolutionized, by the arrival of Loft Story on the screens. This American reality TV show which inspired many others consisted of locking single people in a house for monthsand to film and broadcast their daily lives, treating viewers to their crushes and shouting matches.
The fiction series, directed by Louis Farge and produced by Alexia Laroche-Joubert, who already produced the original show, specifically turns the production of Loft Story. Here, the idea is to offer a new image of the best-known candidate of the show, Loana, widely mistreated by the program and the press of the time (and now), especially after her over-publicized adventure with Jean -Edouard, another candidate. Here is what the press thinks of this series with such a special concept.
Cult: Loft Story makes amends?
So far, the French press seems relatively won over by the proposal of Worship. The phenomenon Loft Story would he repeat himself?
“We throw ourselves at these six episodes like a packet of candy, a Proust madeleine for millennials. Already cult.” 4.5/5
The Point
“A fascinating and very well produced series by Louis Farge.” 4/5
Les Echos
“The madeleine effect is fascinating. Faithfully reconstructed, they are like memories that pass before our eyes, and the “lofters” are above all silhouettes, ultra-identifiable and recognizable in the blink of an eye, but silhouettes.” 4/5
Liberation
“Between the excessive ambitions of the producers and the audience war between the channels, the media thriller is successful and the series fascinates as much as it entertains.” 4/5
West France
“The creation of “Loft” told like a fictionalized soap opera, which assumes excessive dramaturgy to better illuminate its impact on the time. Captivating like lofters in a swimming pool.” 4/5
First
“Tensions, victories, betrayals, human problems and morality are the key words of “Cult”. Fun and confusing at the same time.” 3.5/5
South West
“A rereading undoubtedly more in line with the aspirations of the post-MeToo era than with the context of the time.” 3/5
Telerama
Generally speaking, reviews are very positivewith perhaps some reservations about the current rereading of a time when the cruel treatment of Loana was unfortunately banal and innocuous. To form your own opinion, direction Prime Video, where the six episodes of the first season of Worship landed on October 18.
