With Luis Clavis as musical director and Valaire as house orchestra, we knew we were going to love this new thing before we even looked at it. And that was before discovering its deliciously dreamlike visual style. Directed by Jill Niquet-Joyal (La voix), the show Plaza Plaisir offers an hour of energetic musical performances. This is what we remember after watching the premiere, with Mike Clay (who offers the always irresistible Bouge ton thang and CNQDL), Pierre Kwenders, The Boulay sisters (in dancing mode!) and Aiza (a great discovery) . The guests this week: Fanny Bloom, Ariane Roy, Laurence Jalbert and Gab Paquet.
The bad news? Meryam and Félix are over the legal age to participate in the show. The maid ? A few familiar faces are returning, like Étienne and Louka, who wasted no time finding their place in the arena last week. Another positive point: after three seasons in a reduced format due to a certain COVID-19 pandemic, our favorite quiz once again brings together 100 participants in the studio. You can hear it. The applause of the young competitors is much louder. And no more simulated high fives in the void on either side of a Plexiglas panel. Physical contact is now allowed!
The channel may well be called ELLE Fictions, but it sometimes drops the translated American series to offer original productions, like this new fashion magazine helmed by the impeccable Marie-Josée Gauvin, in which a personality revisits her striking looks and reveals her style icon. To begin this first season, the host welcomes Mitsou, who has a unique wardrobe. Downside: we would have liked to see more archive images to support each segment. For example, an extract from the Chinese music video to liven up the conversation around the black perfecto would not have gone amiss. However, we guess that due to a lack of budget, this was impossible.
We haven’t always been hooked on the sentimental or sexual tribulations of the teenagers in Sex Education, this progressive comedy often a finalist at the BAFTA TV Awards. In several episodes, its authors tended to underline with yellow marker the messages they wanted to convey, to the detriment of the development of certain intrigues, relegated to second place. But since Laurie Nunn’s offering officially bows out this fall, we would be cowardly to give up now, as its fourth and final season arrives. Replicating the famous (and pompous) I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) by Meat Loaf, its trailer suggests a grandiose finale.
