France 2 begins broadcasting its new fiction this Monday, October 21, 2024 On the slab. Is the mini-series with Yvan Attal and Virginie Ledoyen worth watching? We tell you everything!
After a final unprecedented salvo of Disturbing disappearance, France 2 offers this Monday, October 21, 2024 a new mini-series entitled On the slab. Composed of two episodes, the fiction is in reality an adaptation of a thriller by Fred Vargas. Like another screen version of a novel by the successful author, in this case When the recluse comes out in 2019, Josée Dayan was responsible for directing this fiction, and Emmanuel Carrère for the screenplay. On the casting side, to play the famous Commissioner Adamsberg, it was Yvan Attal who was chosen, instead of Jean-Hugues Anglade, who played the character in the previous adaptations. We also find Corinne Masiero still in the shoes of Retancourt, but also Sylvie Testud in that of Froissy. Also note the presence of Virginie Ledoyen (Sabine) or Olivier de Benoist (Mathieu).
On the slab : What is the new France 2 mini-series with Yvan Attal and Virginie Ledoyen about?
While he has just saved a hedgehog from certain death, Commissioner Adamsberg (Yvan Attal) is called by his cop friend, Mathieu (Olivier de Benoist) following the murder of a game warden near the small village of Combourg, in Brittany. Arriving on site with his entire team, the investigators will soon discover that a serial killer is on the prowl, against the backdrop of the struggle between umbrists and umbras, lame people sowing terror in the city, and a hunchback… whose bump miraculously disappears . The countdown is then started to flush out the culprit.
On the slab : What is the new France 2 mini-series with Yvan Attal and Virginie Ledoyen worth?
From the outset, it must be admitted that in the midst of the many current detective fictions resembling each other except for a few details, On the slab has the merit of surprising with an originality of tone, oscillating between poetry and absurdity. Likewise, here the dialogues are not drowned in a certain number of commonplaces emptied of their meaning that can be found elsewhere. The problem with these seemingly positive points is that when taken to their extreme, they quickly become problematic. Thus, if the mini-series also seems to take a bias towards the benefits of slowness, a happy medium could have been more judicious in order not to lose the viewer, caught in an investigation which does not seem to be moving forward, an absurd scenario, dialogues regularly uninteresting or incomprehensible. On the production side, we can also wonder about the choice of shots seeming to date from another time or of an overly demonstrative aspect approaching awkwardly a theatrical production. If the lovely casting of this fiction allows for a minimum of pleasure, and the second episode still gains in coherence and effectiveness, we can still wonder if On the slab would not have done better to remain a successful work…
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