The mysteries of love, episode 17, season 32. Scene in a bar: “Well, we haven’t left the inn”says Jimmy (Tom Schacht) to Nicolas (Patrick Puydebat), who replies: “No, we didn’t leave the inn. » Their friend José is in detention for assaulting a young woman. Fortunately, Nicolas is friends with the local cops: “Don’t worry, we’ll do everything to get him out of there, but right now it’s hot” (reference to #metoo).
The policewoman, with a plunging neckline, therefore sends him, in complete relaxation, the identity and the photo of the supposed victim. And here is the group of friends determined to put pressure on the young lady so that she withdraws her complaint. Normal.
Everything will end well, the villainous liar (doubled as a thief) will drop the charges. Olga, another friend of José, who runs a food truck on the banks of the Marne, sent one of her ex-colleagues from the KGB (yes) ” fix the problem “. Here, here.
Every Saturday and Sunday, on TMC, at 7:45 p.m., nearly 500,000 spectators follow the twists and turns of one of the oldest French television series. We are a long way from the six million followers that each episode ofHelen and the boys, in the early 1990s, when there were only six channels. The protagonists haven’t changed, just aged a bit. And, for some, have made no headway in comedy.
Space-Time Rift
It has therefore been thirty years since Nicolas, Hélène, Laly, Béné, Christian, Cathy and the others, between two heartbreaking considerations on love in particular and life in general, have been inflicted by AB’s “scenario-killer”. Productions Jean-François Porry many adventures where the incredible vies with the absurd. Thirty years that they love each other, tear each other apart, separate in various latitudes (garage, cafèt, West Indies, Val-de-Marne). Thirty years that they have been robbed by Albanian mobsters and crooked producers, have survived serious accidents or incurable illnesses, thanks to the only “mystery of love”.
Finding Christian (Cricri d’amour) emptying his bottle of whiskey, Johanna chatting with Brad (one of the heroes of girls next door), but also Maxime (comedian of the 2000s, forgotten) in a wheelchair, and Frank, of 2Be3, in a tight T-shirt, makes the viewer over 40 fall into a kind of spatio-temporal fault as preposterous as it is reassuring.
In this parallel universe – where nothing is credible – there is no war in Ukraine, no debate on immigration (or wokism), feminicide or global warming. Life follows its long calm river, protected from all reality.
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