“Shrinking”, “Interview with the Vampire”, “Cult”

THE MORNING LIST

This week, the series rediscover the pleasure of recurrence with seasons 2 firmly held for Shrinking et Interview with a Vampire. The six episodes of Worshipa highly anticipated miniseries on the genesis and behind the scenes of “Loft Story”, will satisfy the most eager viewers.

“Shrinking”: Bill Lawrence’s collective therapy

Shrinkingone of the many projects of American comedy veteran Bill Lawrence, could have stuck to its lovely first season around the mourning of a father and his daughter after the mother is killed in a car accident. car. But as is often the case with Lawrence, progenitor among others of Spin City and of Scrubsthe band effect is addictive. And the troupe is back for a second season with a slightly more sluggish start than the first, but whose developments, funny and tenderly melancholic, will not disappoint.

The cast is completed this year by Brett Goldstein, partner of Bill Lawrence on Ted Lassowho elegantly takes on the thankless role of the driver responsible for the death of the wife of Jimmy (Jason Segel), the psychologist with iconoclastic methods around whom the series revolves. The latter also pays for some extra craziness, with a little more screen time for Jimmy’s gay best friend (played by Michael Urie), as well as for his neighbor (Christa Miller), two freewheeling and properly delicious. With its over-the-top humor, its good intentions and its actors of remarkable precision, Shrinking cultivates an old-fashioned charm to which it would, in the current landscape, be foolish not to succumb. Audrey Fournier

“Interview with the Vampire”, seasons 1 and 2: queer variation on a horror theme

It began in 1976 as a horror bestseller, born from the fevered imagination of a New Orleans novelist. In 1994, the bloody loves of Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac, the roué Parisian and the Louisiana planter, united for eternity by their condition as vampires, took the form of a duel between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. At the time, director Neil Jordan disguised the homoerotic charge of the story just enough to preserve the Hollywood status of his stars.

Thirty years later, the two seasons ofInterview with a Vampire voluptuously deploy their queer meanders, carried by writing of rare sophistication. Louis (Jacob Anderson, formerly Gray Worm in Game of Thrones) finds in vampirism an escape from his condition as a mixed race in a society rotten by segregation. With his French lover (Sam Reid), he adopts Claudia (Bailey Bass, replaced by Delainey Hayles for season 2) and makes her a vampire just as the young girl was reaching adolescence.

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