Who says topic of the hour obviously says Bag of chips listening.
After covering the controversy surrounding the documentary's pre-broadcast Alphas with a little too much enthusiasm, we were ready to view the subject responsible for the uproar of the hour.
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Monday evening, 8 p.m., Benoit Alpha and Caroline Boss Babe were sitting in front of their respective televisions, ready to understand the phenomenon of masculinists with 7,000 subscribers each on Instagram.
Screenshot FROM THE “ALPHAS” DOCUMENTARY TRAILER
During the hour that followed, we exchanged some thoughts which we share with you here
Around 7:45 p.m., Benoit Alpha was optimistic: “I hope it will live up to the outcry.”
Finally, he was distracted before 8 p.m. and missed the opening of the documentary: “Hello, I missed the beginning, I was helping my daughter with homework.”
Not very alpha male, all that.
“Yeah, I'm not really alpha except that I pee standing up.”
Ok Benoit. Back to the documentary.
For her part, Caroline Boss Babe quickly wondered why the man had been stuck between the tables of a classroom, while filming him from the side.
Screenshot FROM THE DOCUMENTARY “ALPHAS”
It was the professor of political science Francis Dupuis-Déri, who we saw at Everyone is talking about it Sunday evening, whose comments throughout the documentary were also greatly appreciated by our two guinea pigs.
The misogynist Andrew Tate, leading figure of “alpha men” and idol of the documentary's protagonists, then appeared regularly on screen.
[Note des auteurs: c’était des extraits de ses vidéos, il n’a pas participé à un documentaire de Télé-Québec.]
“Andrew Tate… I liked Dan Bilzerian better,” Benoit Alpha then said, visibly nostalgic for the glory years of the Pointe-Calumet Beachclub.
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Quickly, Caroline Boss Babe wanted to remind that she had a master's degree in journalism and asked in the chat channel why there was no fact-checking on screen. “Like the garish guy “my wife did her confirmation, there were a lot of people at the church, so there are more and more people converting at the moment”. Figures on the subject at the bottom of the screen would have been enlightening and important, it seems to me…”
Luckily, she then pulled herself together with more interesting thoughts: “Okay, everyone has a lisp.”
“Haha it’s true,” agreed Benoit Alpha.
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“I love the part with the young people,” Caroline later said, shocked by the comments of certain teenagers gathered in a class who deplored that women were now “higher than men”.
“Yes, damn social networks,” saddened Benoit Alpha, father of three teenagers who believes he has found the person responsible for all evils.
Then, after the very interesting segment with young people, came the end where the influencer who lives in Tampa Bay Julien Bournival tries to train gentlemen to become entrepreneurs.
“Wait, I don’t understand. Are you an army of heat pump salesmen?” Benoit asked, astounded by the “training” offered to young people which looked more like a sectarian gathering.
“When I say 'YES,' you say 'GET IT DONE!”» replied Caroline, visibly ready to sell heat pumps, even if she never really understood what a heat pump was.
“That was the weirdest thing,” Benoit concluded just before the end of the documentary took us by surprise.
At the time, Caroline did not react to this comment. But with hindsight and as she writes these lines, she tells herself that Joël McGuirk still namedropped Satan a few times, which is still not nothing. But it’s true that the ends of the heat pumps were strange.
And then boom came the end, as abrupt as the end of this article.
“Let’s see the end.”
«Hum.»
The documentary, led by journalist Simon Coutu, is accessible on the Télé-Québec platform.
