A series, a film, a documentary: what are we watching this weekend on streaming platforms?

Because it’s not always easy to find your way through the endless catalogs of the various streaming platforms, every Friday we offer you a selection of three programs to watch during your weekend. To vary the pleasures, each time we present a series, a film and a documentary or cartoon from Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Canal+, OCS or other less famous platforms.

Our weekend selection takes us on Canal+, to discover the political series Black Baronon somersault with the so british and parody Cornetto trilogy, and on Netflix with the documentary Jim and Andywhich opens a window on the somewhat sick psyche of Jim Carrey.

Black Baronon MyCanal

There’s probably no better time to watch Black Baron than during the presidential campaign. The series by Eric Benzekri and Jean-Baptiste Delafon depicts a political environment plagued by shenanigans, corruption and manipulation, and should undermine the little certainty you have left in this area. Long confined to humorous roles, Kad Merad is stunning in the role of Philippe Rickwaert, a PS deputy (François Hollande’s party was still in vogue at the time) sacrificed by his party to save the outgoing president who will swear to take his revenge on his political tormentors. Sometimes surreal, this series is however not so much when compared to real events that have occurred in recent decades in France. She does not hesitate to borrow a little from reality for certain characters or situations. If politics interests you at all, you need to dive into Black Baronfurther proof of French promises on the series market.

Hot Fuzzon Salto

Second part of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy, interspersed between Shaun of the Dead and The last pub before the end of the world (also available on Salto), Hot Fuzz is in our opinion the best of the three, by far. We follow Nicholas Angel, a London super-cop so good that he overshadows the rest of his team. To deal with this problem, his superiors transfer him to Sandford, a small country village renowned for its flowers, its elderly people and its reputation as a town where nothing ever happens. By moving a action hero in such a rural setting, Wright and his two friends Simon Pegg and Nick Frost create a discrepancy that turns out to be a gold mine of gags, each more hilarious than the next. Especially since the staging and editing specific to the director’s style accentuate this contrast. If we add a cast full of very big names in English cinema such as Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Bill Nighy or even Martin Freeman, we get a comedy classic, neither more nor less. Please note that the trilogy is only available until March 11.

Jim and Andyon Netflix

Before I start talking about Jim and Andyyou have to find a way to watch Man on the Moon, the biopic of comic Andy Kaufman directed in 2000 by Milos Forman – unfortunately not available on SVoD at the moment. Twenty years after this sparkling performance by a Jim Carrey at the height of his career, Netflix revealed to us behind the scenes with the actor himself as the narrator. Carrey gave everything for this role, even to the point of going a little crazy. Archive footage of Jim and Andy reveal an inhabited actor, convinced of being a sort of reincarnation of his idol. Refusing to leave his role even outside of filming, the actor pushes his director to the limit, maintains the vagueness with the family of Kaufman – who died in 1984 – and makes life difficult for the whole team. But we understand it by watching this one-of-a-kind documentary, it was all just a big joke, a way for the grimacing actor to pay homage to the provocative comedian by using the same comic weapons as him. A testimony that is sometimes touching, sometimes bordering on uncomfortable, but always amazing.