THE MORNING LIST
In addition to the remarkable French medical series Hippocratesthis week sees the return of the spies of The Old Man for an unexpected and completely successful second season. For a little more relaxed viewing, don't hesitate to devote one or two evenings to Murder Clubthe nice parody thriller from M6.
“Hippocrates”, season 3: the hospital will collapse
Four years separate the last season ofHippocrates of the previous one, which ended with the first jolts of the Covid-19 epidemic within the Raymond-Poincaré hospital, already weakened by a constant lack of resources and by the suicide of a young intern, Igor . The third season makes the radical choice to sidestep the pandemic, to better analyze its consequences on an already bloodless hospital system. The observation, sometimes unbearably violent, is drawn up in six extremely tense episodes, written to the bone, which leave no room for affects or feelings, except that of a job well done.
The season, compressed into just a few days in the department of Doctor Brun (Bouli Lanners), confirms the permanence of a two-tier medicine: when the emergency rooms close, the youngest doctors ignore the hierarchy to reroute the sick wandering towards an abandoned wing of the hospital, called “Hotel California”. The “Calif'” becomes the solution of last resort, the alternative when the system gets stuck, but also the place where a little humanity remains. These missionary doctors are played with touching fidelity by the same actors as in previous seasons and filmed with tenderness and deference by Thomas Lilti, never more accurate than when he recounts the profession he chose to leave. Me. F.
Series created and directed by Thomas Lilti. With Louise Bourgoin, Alice Belaïdi, Karim Leklou, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Anne Consigny, Bouli Lanners (Fr., 2024, 6 × 52 min). Two episodes Monday November 11 at 9 p.m. on Canal+. On demand on MyCanal.
“Murder Club”: the latest French-style thriller
Noted at Séries Mania for its main performer, Tiphaine Daviot, who won the award for best actress in a French series, Murder Club strives to give a facelift to the figure of the cop made in France in the person of Amélia Delcourt, a tenacious but clumsy policewoman, fed up with “Bring in the accused” and flanked by a tenderly intrusive mother.
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