“Squid Game”, “Rivages”, “Elsbeth”… Which series to watch on television from January 6 to 11, 2025?

Note : 3/5

Series After three years of waiting, here is the return of “Squid Game”, the Korean series. Seong Gi-hun, the winner of the massacre game, is in complete depression, consumed by the departure of his daughter, the death of his mother, and that of his 455 companions in misfortune. Holed up in a hotel in Seoul, he organizes his revenge against the sponsors whom he tries to find by all means, thanks to a team financed with his immense fortune: 46 billion won (30 million euros). He crosses paths with an infiltrator, who was on the island to find his older brother. The duo decides to team up… The game resumes, with the deadly “1,2,3 Sun” and new, even more brutal tests. After the surprise success of the first season, this new saga struggles to find its way, finally resuming the codes of success from the beginning. A third season is in preparation for 2025.

Note : 5/5

Film. Inspired by his own youth, Steven Spielberg tells the story of Sammy, a teenage camera enthusiast, torn between an enthusiastic mother (formidable Michelle Williams) and a pragmatic father. Through this fictional double, the successful director explores the birth of a vocation, while examining family fissures with moving delicacy. The film, with its effective and poetic staging, is an ode to the cathartic power of the image, capable of sublimating intimate dramas. The director of “ET, the Extra-Terrestrial”, “Schindler’s List” and “Jaws” transcends the exercise with a tender but never complacent look. A moving and luminous initiatory story, which confirms that cinema remains, at home, an art of wonder and reconciliation. A veiled self-portrait, an intimate and vibrant work. The childhood of a genius master who finally decides to indulge a little…

Sunday January 5, at 9:10 p.m., on France 2.

• 3 “Shorelines”

  

  Note : 3/5

  Series. A trawler and 14 fishermen disappear off the coast of Fécamp (Seine-Maritime), in a shipwreck as brutal as it is unexplained. Abigail (Fleur Geffrier, “Les Gouttes de Dieu”), an oceanologist from Ifremer, is dispatched to the site to try to understand what happened. And confront her past: the missing boat belongs to her father Henri (Thierry Godard), her ex-husband Julien (Guillaume Labbé) is a fisherman there and she fled the city after the accidental death of their three-year-old son, drowned at sea Through diving and research, she discovers that what is disturbing the seabed is an extraordinary creature, with which it is possible to communicate! But the army tries to cover up the affair… An environmental thriller, a new series, a little slow, confusing with this magical creature, and a very effective casting (Jean-Marc Barr as a bonus), this is a good reason to start the year!

  Monday January 6, at 9:05 p.m., on France 2.

• 4 Infrared: “The test of a lifetime”

  

  Note : 4/5

  Magazine. “How are you with the pain?” » This is the question that the journalist Romain Verley asked, ten years later, to Michel Catalano, the printer from Dammartin (Seine-et-Marne), the last to have seen (and spoken to) the Kouachi brothers, since the The family printing house where those responsible for the deadly Charlie Hebdo attacks had taken refuge. It was January 9, 2015, two days after the attack. Michel Catalano, taken hostage with one of his employees, thought he would die that day, shot. He survived. For a year, Romain Verley, who was there shortly after the tragedy, returned and followed the man in his daily life, with his family, his wife and his children, taking stock of a difficult decade, made up of hope and a slow reconstruction. The broken life of an ordinary man. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, M6 (January 6) and France 2 pay tribute to the victims. Moving.

  Tuesday January 7, at 11:15 p.m., on France 2.

• 5 « Elsbeth »

  

  Note : 3/5

  Series. Do you remember “Arabesque”? In the same spirit, here is Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston), a lawyer from Chicago, appointed observer of good practices for the New York police. Beneath her spinster exterior, ultra-enthusiastic about New York life, and life in general, lies an observant and sagacious woman who will discover, at crime scenes, a plethora of details that have escaped the police. A young girl committed suicide? She suspects her theater teacher. An influencer electrocuted in her bath? Spin-off of the series “The Good Wife”, broadcast from 2009 to 2016 and “The Good Fight”, where she appears alongside Julianna Margulies, Elsbeth is a kind of female Columbo (the murderer is revealed from the start ). Exuberant, invasive, but ultimately rather endearing!

Wednesday January 8, at 9:10 p.m., on TF1.