we have ranked (objectively) the 20 best series of the Saturday Trilogy

We are in 1997, and M6 has the good idea to offer us an unmissable event on Saturday evening: the Saturday Trilogy. On the program, there are three episodes of three series, and a maximum of thrills and emotions. Until 2008, more than forty series were broadcast on this program. So, to remember some good memories, we took the 20 best series to rank them.

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The mood of the Saturday Trilogy is fantasy/mystery mixed with adolescent/young adult protagonists. Numb3rs tried to create a plot with mathematics, it didn’t (too) work and we understand.

A student who can relive the last days of the dead she touches, that’s a good idea. We buy.

With one season and six episodes, The Lost Room miniseries which came without winning despite some qualities.

A guy who goes on vacation to Rambouillet and comes back with all five senses overdeveloped? Come on, let’s sign.

It’s a good series. Unfortunately, she arrived late in the game of series where the main character has paranormal powers. As a result, we got bored.

The Stargate spin-off SG-1 will never have managed to match its big brother, but it remains a good memory.

The Saturday Trilogy began its adventure with three series: The Chameleon, Dark Skies: The Impossible Truth et Profiler. And Dark Skies was quickly dismissed, Profiler was able to stand out from the crowd. A pioneering profiling series in France, we validate.

It’s a series that was able to gain momentum to end on a high note. And then at the time, we all wanted to be part of the 4400 and have a very dark story to tell.

A mysterious, amnesiac young man without a navel who turns out to be charismatic and kind? It didn’t take much for us teenagers in search of a role model to identify with him.

Long before the Totally Spies!Jennifer Garner was making our dream of going to school while managing a life as a double agent come true. Even if it was less cool than hitting the vampire, it’s still admirable.

We are not going to lie to ourselves and take a long-distance hiking trail, Supernaturalthat’s 15 incredible seasons, but on the Saturday Trilogy, we only had the right to the first three. It’s too little. We still leave the series in the top 10, out of respect for the Winchester brothers.

Certainly the series did not have the expected success, but Max, Isabel and Michael were the mirrors of our misunderstood teenage lives. And then Dido in the credits, it’s clearly the sad/gothic spirit that we were looking for in the 2000s.

Her name is Max, she’s too dark, she’s looking for her destiny, she’s played by Jessica Alba (it’s the series that made her known) and James Cameron is executive producing. Well, the series only lasted two seasons, but we remember it like it was yesterday (that’s not true, we’ve forgotten everything).

I admit, this series is my favorite. I’ve always had a lot of love for the very depressive background of the series. I mean, I mean, the guy comes out of a coma, he’s lost everything, and the guy who married his wife hires him to do his job. There is better, in terms of happiness. At a time when we couldn’t play the credits, this title by Jeff Buckley was a delight for the ears.

It’s true that from season 3 onwards, it started to smell a little rusty, but the first two were enough to bring in Prison Break in the pantheon of the great series of the 2000s. Take a handsome, slightly dark kid with a tattooed body who gets incarcerated in order to get his innocent brother to escape, some very nasty villains and a plan as well laid out as a Sunday lunch roast and we get Saturday nights in front of the TV. And then Faf Larage.

This is the very first series that we were able to discover on the Saturday Trilogy (X-Files is not part of the Saturday Trilogy). And what a series, friends. Jarod took us by the hand to take us through four memorable seasons, alongside psychiatrist Sydney and Miss Parker.

Colonel O’Neal, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal’c… these are the names of our heroes. Stargate SG-1 repeats the plot of the film Stargate, the stargate and develops the lore which will make us learn Egyptian mythology as well as many myths and legends (even that of Arthur and Merlin is there). The series was so successful that the producers attempted a spin-off, Stargate Atlantis. What an adventure it was.

Smallville, This is American schooling as we would have liked to experience it. We had American football, proms, high school romances and entanglements and, of course, a secret identity to hide, all against the backdrop of Superman’s youth. We had a crush on Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, Loïs Lane, and obviously on that awkward introvert Clark Kent. If each season concocted the same recipe for us, it was 10 seasons and 10 years of pure pleasure to finally arrive at Superman.

Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Page, Angels, Demons, Book of Shadows, The Power of Three, Charmed has achieved the feat of becoming the reference witch series. No one has done better, no one will do better, and no set of three sisters will say otherwise. Which power did you prefer? For me, it was Prue’s telekinesis. I cried too much when she died and was replaced by half-witch, half-light being Paige and her old power to teleport objects in her hand.

Who were you in love with? Angel or Spike? Alyson or Buffy? For my entire life, my choice is Buffy. And I was right because Buffy is the best character in the Saturday Trilogy. The series is a delight for any child or teenager of the 2000s. We had the student life/secret life duality, investigations, big fights, and the fashionable creatures of the moment: vampires. It was cool, it was dark, it was funny, it was violent, it was moving. Long live the Scooby Gang.

I really want to forget everything to come back to the 2000s and rediscover it all.