If the series has, at times, the appearance of a giant karaoke, the objective is not to party or to learn to sing and dance like in the series Fame, Glee or High School Musicalbut to stop hiding one’s feelings behind artifice and false pretenses under falsely delighted or indifferent airs. Of course, Zoey’s world has a rather feel good but the merit does not only go to the recent or timeless hits that it (re)highlights. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist above all values listening and empathy, the care we take of ourselves and others, as well as the celebration of the small and big moments of life and the connection to others.
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Make no mistake: the idea is not to lock yourself in a bubble of individual and artificial joy. The use of song and dance does not confine the series to the department of guilty pleasures: Austin Winsberg’s creation indeed addresses many serious and even fundamental questions such as disability, guilt, harassment, fear of entering in relationship with others, or to admit one’s weaknesses and limitations, but also death.
Face the truth
Another event, a major one, recently turned Zoey’s life upside down: her father (Peter Gallagher) suffers from a degenerative disease which gradually paralyzes him and prevents him from communicating with those close to him: his wife, his daughter, his son. We will not be surprised to learn that screenwriter Austin Winsberg imagined this fiction while he was suffering from not being able to contact a sick loved one. The relationship that Zoey has with her father is therefore central to the plot. The young woman, usually rather discreet and reserved, will gradually come out of her shell. At the risk of even doing too much at times. Above all, she will have to learn to navigate life differently, through contact with the extraordinary Mo (Alex Newell, discovered in Glee), his next-door neighbor, Max (Skylar Astin), his lifelong friend and his devastatingly charming colleague, Simon (John Clarence Stewart).
Within the web company that employs Zoey, fans of Gilmore Girls will be delighted – or intrigued? – to find Lauren Graham in a role radically different from the one she played in the generational series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino.
Tell the truth in every tone
The use of music is never trivial in a plot, whether it is a thriller or a comedy. An excellent indicator of emotions, sound helps set the rhythm or densifies scenes without words. Over the decades, alongside musicals themselves, numerous series have responded to the call for the largely or entirely musical episode, on both sides of the Atlantic. Whether it isAlly Mc Beal, Buffy, Grey’s AnatomyThe Office or, even, Little Murders by Agatha Christie. Without forgetting the series whose framework is covered with arpeggios and scores, because of their theme: Atlanta et Tremeof course, but also Mozart in the Jungle or the French series Philharmonia.
The musical episode of “Little Murders of Agatha Christie”
In a month of January filled with challenges and bleak prospects – to put it mildly – you would be wrong not to (re)connect to this bubble, not so fictional, encouraging good humor and openness. mind, while remembering the most emblematic songs of our lives. The entire series, launched 5 years ago in the United States on January 7, 2020, produced by the NBC channel, is available on Auvio: 25 episodes spread over two seasons.
★★★ Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist The secret melody of our lives Creation Austin Winsberg Realization Richard Shepard, Ryan Irving With Jane Levy, Skylar Astin, Alex Newell, John Clarence Stewart, Peter Gallagher,… On Auvio & Prime Video2 complete seasons (25 x 42′)
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