Medical emergencies, police emergencies, love emergencies, here are three unique series to devour soon on Canal+ and myCanal.
This is going to hurt
This 7-episode, 52-minute British series, created and written for the BBC by Adam Kay based on his eponymous bestseller, follows Adam, a young obstetrician doctor in hospital, overwhelmed by endless weeks of work and cases difficult, all for a pittance. The young man, who regularly makes hilarious asides in front of the camera, is played by Ben Winshaw (actor seen in Criminal Justice, The Hour or even in Q alongside Daniel Craig in James Bond).
Very funny, and on a catchy pop soundtrack, the series also knows how to switch to emotion without too much pathos, a rare characteristic in the medical drama genre. Like two other nuggets of the genre, the French Hippocrates (Canal+) and HP (OCS), This is going to hurt shows with an almost documentary realism how much the health system across the Channel is also on the edge of the implosion, between cruel lack of means and exhausted personnel. “There is something universal in the life of a doctor. When the book was released, I received e-mails from doctors around the world telling me that the story could have taken place in their hospital in any country,” explains author Adam Kay, who hopes that the series will help change the way the NHS deals with the mental well-being of its staff a bit, “it would mean a lot more to me than any award or ratings figure.”
This is going to hurt will be broadcast on Canal+ from March 31, 2022, on Thursdays at 9 p.m. with two episodes per evening and available in full on myCanal.
TheTower
It will delight fans of well-crafted English detective series in the Happy Valley, The Tower is adapted by Patrick Harbinson (screenwriter and executive producer of Homeland) from the novel “Post Mortem”, the first part of the “Metropolitan” trilogy by Kate London which – pledge of realism – is herself a former investigator of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Unforgettable Yara Greyjoy in Game of Thrones and since seen in series like The Crown, The end of the fucking world or even Killing Eve, actress Gemma Whelan embodies an honest and determined police officer in charge of investigating mysterious deaths. of a teenage girl and a police officer who both fell from the roof of a high-rise building in London.
The Tower will be broadcast exclusively on Canal+ on Monday March 28 (its three episodes), and available in full on myCanal.
Mr. 8
Crowned with the prize for the best series and that of the best interpretation for Pekka Strang who embodies the Mister 8 of the title, this dark comedy filmed in black and white from Finland follows a woman who thinks she has found the solution to the problems of a couple in having seven different companions at a time, more exactly a separate companion for each day of the week.
Everything goes as she wishes until she meets this famous “Mister 8”, by chance one evening while he is waiting for a blind date at the restaurant which will end up not coming. Seduced after spending the evening together, Maria offers Juho to take the place of one of her companions by joining her little “harem” which she manages like a business. Like the other lovers, Juho agrees to sign a contract containing very strict clauses to govern their relationship, such as the one which prohibits them from contacting each other when it is not the day of the week allocated to their couple. With its piquant humor and its improbable situations, Mister 8 deals in a very original way with romantic relationships, and with what is expected of its partners, namely a lot…
Mister 8 will be broadcast from April 1, Fridays at 9 p.m. on Canal+ with four episodes per evening and available in full on myCanal.