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On the menu of our suggestions for the week, post-mortem metaverse on Prime Video, futile but funny love affairs on Salto, and a completely delirious dive into the hunt for a Canadian psychopath on Netflix.
Upload, Tamara Drewe, Don’t Fuck with Cats. © Prime Video / Diaphana Distribution / Netflix
From metaverse to walking corpsesUpload in the bucolic countryside of Tamara Dreweending with the tortured mind of a Canadian psychopath in Don’t Fuck With Catshere are three suggestions to see or review on SVoD platforms.
Upload on Prime Video
When it comes to American sitcoms, some authors are essential. This is the case of Greg Daniels, who worked on The simpsons, The Office or Parks and Recreationand which is also at the origin ofUpload. In this series of anticipation, it is possible to find an afterlife by uploading one’s consciousness, memories, etc., in a virtual avatar within a kind of post-mortem metaverse. This is what happens to Nathan, a talented developer who dies prematurely in a self-driving car accident. So here he is in Lake View, a luxury digital space, where he is managed by Nora, his operator within the world of the living. On the strength of this innovative pitch, Upload is full of very clever gags on the habits and customs of today’s and tomorrow’s tech. But it is also an interesting reflection on life after death – which is also reminiscent The Good Place — and the potential offered by digital technology in this regard. A real good surprise whose third season has already been ordered.
Tamara Drewe on Salto
Best known for his adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons, Stephen Frears had distinguished himself in 2010 with another transposition to the screen, this time of a graphic novel by author Posy Simmonds. Tamara Drewe is a journalist who has returned to her native village to write an article, years after leaving. The young woman has changed since her exodus, having notably had her nose redone, then considered unsightly. This return to the country will turn the heads of local residents, a gallery of colorful characters where rural and bourgeois meet, and where the most stupid are not necessarily the least qualified. Far from being a major work, Tamara Drewe is despite everything a very refreshing dive into the English countryside, its petty bourgeoisie and its intellectuals in search of green inspiration. A film as rustic as it is caustic that is worthy of its well-crafted plot and its sometimes endearing, often ridiculous characters.
Don’t Fuck With Cats on Netflix
As we know, Netflix has now made a specialty of unearthing the most sordid subjects possible for its in-house documentaries – to the delight of many subscribers. Don’t Fuck With Cats is no exception to the rule, since it recounts the hunt for one of the most deranged criminals of recent decades: the Canadian Luka Rocco Magnotta. But as often, it is in the narration that lies the interest of this documentary series. It all starts when a shocking video in which a person tortures cats is published on the Internet. A group of Internet users then unites to identify the person who commits these terrible crimes. But as their investigation progresses, the videos become more and more disturbing, until the case takes on absolutely terrible proportions. We will say no more so as not to spoil the salt of this series, which has marked many spectators, and which is logically not to be put in front of all eyes.