men lose their shirts on TF1

Bin (Guillaume Labbé), a failed actor, returns to settle in the Camargue after the death of his father, but the finances of the family business are at rock bottom. Earn money as quickly as possible, yes, but how? The series Escort Boys launched at the end of 2023 by Prime Video and broadcast this evening in the second part of the evening on TF1, gives us its answer in its title which could not be more explicit.

This series by Ruben Alves (director in 2020 of the film Miss), freely adapted from the Israeli series Johnny & the Knights of the Galileedoes not do it by half measures by offering for the holidays this modern fable where the role of sexual object falls, for once, to men filmed like a calendar of the Gods of the stadium, from every angle.

Escort Boys filmed like a calendar of the Gods of the stadium

Alas, the project chooses the path of cheap dramatic comedy without ever allowing us to really believe in this story of childhood friends, Ben, Mathias (Simon Ehrlacher), Ludo (Thibaut Evrard) and Zack (Corentin Fila), who lose their pants to improve their finances, all under the leadership of a 17-year-old girl who suddenly becomes a madam (!). All enhanced by a rather smooth and not always very clear speech on the place of women in society, under the pretext of playing the card of cheap humor at best, awkwardly ambiguous at worst…

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