Series: “Before”, nightmares of a child psychiatrist

Published on November 1, 2024 at 12:59 p.m. / Modified on November 1, 2024 at 5:16 p.m.

In the family of cinema clowns who have become series heroes, after Vince Vaughn, who recently became an investigator in Bad Monkey, let's call Billy Crystal. His name is perhaps less known in the French-speaking world, but the Harry of When Harry Met Sally (1989) is a pillar of the Anglo-Saxon comic world. Where he is also known for having played on Broadway, lending his voice to the Pixar classic Monsters and Co. and presented numerous Academy Awards ceremonies.

Hard to do further away from Beforea new Apple TV+ series mixing psychological thriller and fantasy horror. Billy Crystal plays Eli, a child psychiatrist who doesn't laugh at the masses. He is struggling to recover from the loss of his wife Lynn (Judith Light), who has become an unwanted ghost whom he sees appear when he wanders alone in their house. Not to mention his bloody nightmares, in which he crashes into the bottom of an empty swimming pool. And then Noah (Jacobi Jupe) arrives: this 8-year-old child comes to scratch his shutters, then breaks into his house at night. He then discovers a perfect horror film child: almost mute, Noah has panic attacks, screams in 17th century Dutch, sticks a pen in the neck of a friend and draws nightmarish scenes – including a farm identical to the one in a photo Lynn left. Eli agrees to take care of this strange little patient.