“Impact Zone”, “Forbidden Zone”, “Paris Has Fallen”, “The World Does Not Exist”… What to watch on TV this week?

Rating: 4/5

Magazine. For over a year, “Zone Interdite” has examined teenagers and the ills that are eating away at them. Suicide attempts, depression, malaise, loneliness… Their mental health has never been so worrying. And to help these 3 million teenagers, there are only 700 child psychiatrists, 80% of whom will be over 60 in 10 years… So how can we act? Psychologists and educators identify the causes of the malaise as covid and the excessive use of smartphones, on which children spend their days… And their nights. Lack of sleep, self-esteem too, from comparing ourselves to photoshopped creatures, but also isolation. Why see ourselves in real life if we stay on our screens? Teenagers spend an average of 40 minutes with their friends per day compared to 2 hours 30 a generation ago… An investigation as in-depth as it is fascinating, from a high school in Lorient to a family in the south of France. To watch as a family!

Sunday, September 22, at 9:10 p.m., on M6.

• 2 “Paris Has Fallen” on Canal +

Rating: 4/5

Series. Protection agent Vincent Taleb and MI6 agent Zara Taylor meet… under a buffet at a reception at the British Embassy in Paris, during an exchange of bullets aimed at the Minister of Defense!

A man, the terrorist Jacob Pearce, a former officer of the Foreign Legion, stationed in Afghanistan, accuses governments of having abandoned him in Taliban jails with his men, for six years. Tortured, raped, he comes to demand compensation, targeting one after the other, up to the President of the Republic, those who participated in his sacrifice… This series – sometimes caricatured – of eight breathless, explosive episodes, is the sequel to the films “White House Has Fallen” (2013), “London Has Fallen” (2016) and “President Has Fallen” (2019). As a bonus, an effective cast, Tewfik Jallab, (“Black Hearts”, “Pax Massilia”), Ritu Arya, Sean Harris (“Mission Impossible”) and Emmanuelle Bercot!

Monday, September 23, at 9:05 p.m., on Canal +.

• 3 “Impact Zone” on France 5

  Rating: 4/5

  Magazine. October 2, 2020: a deluge hits the Vésubie Valley, in the Nice hinterland. The weather alert had been given, but in this mid-mountain town often subject to bad weather, no one was really worried. And especially no one anticipated the violence and speed of Storm Alex, the meter of water that almost instantly invaded the houses, and the torrents, destructive… Less than a year later, on August 16, 2021, the Maures massif, in the Var, was ravaged by an exceptional fire. These two events could be unrelated, and yet, they are an effect of climate change. The new magazine on ecology and climate, presented by the former weather girl, Chloé Nabédian, inaugurates a new, very detailed documentary collection on the climate emergency, and an exploration of the capacity of humans to adapt to these upheavals.

  Monday, September 23, at 9:05 p.m., on France 5.

• 4 Bellefond on France 3

  Rating: 2/5

  Series. Lionel Duprieur, owner of the Cocoon, has just been found murdered by his wife Mathilde in their beach restaurant. Commander Philippe Vasquez (Bruno Solo) is in charge of the case. He finds his old friend Antoine Bellefond (Stéphane Bern) – who is also the godfather of his son Robin – as Mathilde’s lawyer. But it turns out that the latter is accused of being the culprit, which creates some tension between the two men… After having charmed the public and brought together 4.3 million viewers, on average, during the first two episodes, Stéphane Bern is back in his lawyer’s robe, for a classic police investigation, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and weighed down by an uneven cast. A new job for the host of “Secrets d’Histoire”, who made his mark in an episode of “Meurtre en Lorraine”, in 2019!

  Tuesday, September 24, at 9:05 p.m., on France 3.

• 5 “The world does not exist” on Arte

  Rating: 4/5

  Series. Adam Vollmann (Niels Schneider), a web journalist for the major Parisian daily Aujourd’hui-Demain, learns that a murder has just been committed in his hometown of Guerches-sur-Isoire, in the north of France.
  A 16-year-old girl, Lola Montes, has been found murdered and a former local tennis champion, Alex Challe, is suspected and wanted. Adam exceptionally asks his boss to go and investigate the news, arguing that he has contacts in the region. In this sad and inhospitable town, which he left two decades ago, he meets the ghosts of his past, baroque characters. The (bad) memories come back… An original, slow series, about an opaque character, taken from the novel by Fabrice Humbert. We think of the offbeat side of the series “P’tit Quinquin”, by Bruno Dumont. Worth seeing, provided you hang on a little at the beginning, where not much happens!

Thursday, September 26, at 8:55 p.m., on Arte.