The Grim Reaper mows down in a medium time in STAT. During the paranoid psychosis of surgeon Steve Jolicoeur (Marc Beaupré), the heart of social worker Delphine Martin (Virginie Ranger-Beauregard) gave out and psychiatrist Philippe Dupéré (Patrick Labbé) did not survive the scalpel blow that left him severed the carotid artery.
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The decision to sacrifice these two main characters was taken by author Marie-Andrée Labbé and producer Fabienne Larouche. The actors did not hand in their magnetic cards themselves and they would have happily accepted other work shifts at Saint-Vincent hospital.
But that’s the danger of playing in a Quebec daily: the ax spares no one, not even the pillars. As in Game of Thrones. Poupou (Sébastien Delorme) was liquidated in District 31while criminal lawyers Inès Saïd (Nour Belkhiria) and Frédéric Legrand (Martin-David Peters) died in an explosion during the spring finale ofIndefensible to VAT.
These unexpected deaths whip up audiences, stimulate intrigue and lead to heartbreaking scenes like that of Tuesday evening, where the four original friends of STAT were gathered, one last time, around the body of Philippe Dupéré. It was poignant to the bone.
Leaning against each other, actors Suzanne Clément, Geneviève Schmidt and Stéphane Rousseau brought tears to many of the 1,250,000 faithful listening to -.
Same thing for Delphine’s mother, played by Sandra Dumaresq, who inherited a difficult and upsetting score at the start of the week.
The new CEO of Saint-Vincent, Claude Coupal (Caroline Néron), will fill these vacant positions quickly. The hospital’s new psychiatrist, boring and slobbering, will move into his office in two weeks and his name will be Antoine Diamond. It’s the actor Jean-Philippe Perras, seen recently in The emperor on Noovo and in Sleepless Night 2 on Amazon Prime Video, which will portray it. Great draft pick.
The arrest of Steve Jolicoeur, who killed his comrade in a frenzy, does not mean that he will disappear from the - medical soap opera. His criminal history will develop in the coming weeks, even if, physically, Steve Jolicoeur will no longer sit behind the intensive care station. Steve had stopped taking his medication and his colleagues detected strange behavior in him.
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The character of Steve Jolicoeur is played by Marc Beaupré.
But no one reported it and no one stopped him from practicing his profession. And the psychiatrist who treats Steve also seems to have gaslighted. In short, is Steve 100% responsible for the unforgivable action he committed?
Thursday, the fake intensivist and drug thief, Katia Desmarais (Katrine Duhaime), reappears upstairs, and Philippe Dupéré’s will reserves a colossal surprise for his liquidator, none other than Emmanuelle St-Cyr (Suzanne Clément).
-Monday evening, in Indefensiblethe endless hostage-taking almost degenerated into (another) murder when the deranged constable Marc Fichaud (Hugo Dubé) shot private investigator Maxime Dubois (Mathieu Baron) in the chest, who was posing as a negotiator at the Claude Poirier.
This was also the big punch at the end of this special one-hour episode: will Max Dubois survive this other shooting, after the one that occurred in a food court at the conclusion of the first season?
The popular TVA daily self-disclosed, a few seconds later, by presenting images from the next day’s episode. Maxime Dubois appeared on his two legs, in great shape, in the office of lawyer André Lapointe (Michel Laperrière). Verdict? Guilty of contempt and “spoiling”.
Duo of funny crazy people
Fans of incredible comedies Flic de Beverly Hills or Police Academy will love the new series Double gamethe first four episodes of which (out of a total of 12) will land on the Crave platform on Wednesday January 15. Rachid Badouri and Mehdi Bousaidan play two failed Arab actors, Adam and Mounir, whom a police sergeant (Josée Deschênes) hires to infiltrate organized crime and take out one of its leaders, the dangerous Claude Claude, a mysterious person (a man, a woman?) whose face no one has seen.
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Fabien Cloutier, Josée Deschênes, Rachid Badouri and Mehdi Bousaidan in a scene from Double game
In each episode, Adam and Mounir, respectively of Moroccan and Algerian origin, inherit crazy – and very profitable – missions where they transform themselves into internet repairers, vermin exterminators or tax inspectors to pin down petty criminals. Their goal? Go back to Claude Claude, the mobster whose name alone sows fear throughout Montreal.
Psychorigid, Adam (Rachid Badouri) always asks a lot of questions about the psychology of the characters he plays, while Mounir, a grown-up, loves firearms, detective gadgets and American films like Die Hard .
Call them the bell and the idiot. Always stubborn, always picking on their respective North African origins (and often in Arabic).
They complement each other very well, Rachid Badouri and Mehdi Bousaidan. They are both super nonos and endearing, completely dysfunctional and surprisingly effective.
Double game fits into the register of “buddy comedies” which aim more for laughter than realism. And it works very well. It’s better thanSquad 99which derived from the sitcom American Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The episodes of Double game contains several references to Hollywood blockbusters from the 1990s, including Bad Boys et Mortal Kombat.
Bonus: Fabien Cloutier plays Josée Deschênes’ right-hand man who is called Qarl with a Q and that alone is worth a viewing. Or why not 12, to get to the end of this funny Double game.
