This weekend on streaming platforms, we recommend an unknown but very successful French series on OCS, a parodico-war comedy on Prime Video and a documentary series devoted to a kind of somewhat murky tourism on Netflix.
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.
This week, we are going to meet the 30-year-old mama’s boy from the excellent series Irresponsibleactors immersed a little too deep in the Southeast Asian jungle in the hilarious Thunder in the tropics and a journalist with more glaucous reports than the other in the controversial Dark Tourist.
Irresponsibleon OCS
Irresponsiblethis is the story of a thirty-year-old returning home, loser more than on the edges, which falls by chance on its first love. A French romantic comedy in three seasons (30 episodes of 26 minutes) which can be savored — almost — in one go, so much are we caught up in the pleasure of discovering a really funny and relevant French series. Led by the formidable Sébastien Chassagne, this nugget is sure to make you have a great time, sometimes touching and often hilarious — because no, as far as Irresponsible, the term is in no way overused! The mother-son relationship between this young adult who has never left adolescence and his liberated mother, but always beside the plate, comes out of the usual shackles. Everyday situations and vague love affairs evoke this passage to adulthood that our irresistible zero has a hard time recording. Refreshing, quirky. And how are we having fun!
Thunder in the tropicson Amazon Prime Video
From the first minutes, Thunder in the tropics (Tropic Thunder) sets the tone with three very well-thought-out mock parody trailers — special mention to Tobey Maguire’s stealthy, yet unforgettable performance. Everything else in this comedy directed by Ben Stiller is of the same ilk. We follow actors immersed in the jungle for a Hollywood reconstruction of the Vietnam War. Problem, everyone is incompetent on the set, and the team films without knowing it in the middle of a territory dominated by gangs armed to the teeth. Beyond its often very successful gags, the film shines with its performers: Ben Stiller himself as an action star mocked for a somewhat too simpleton performance, Robert Downey Jr. as an ersatz of Daniel Day-Lewis, Australian actor ready to do anything to win the Oscar, even if it means a black face in more than dubious taste, but also an utterly unrecognizable Tom Cruise, completely freewheeling as a crackpot producer spitting obscenity upon obscenity at his collaborators, actors, and the rest of the world.
Dark Touriston Netflix
Friends of the macabre and the gloomy, make yourself comfortable, Dark Tourist is made for you. This documentary series takes us through the tribulations of New Zealand journalist David Farrier as he travels the globe in search of ever more disturbing tourist attractions. Circuits dedicated to cannibalistic serial killers, guided tours of sites devastated by nuclear accidents, encounters with South African survivalists and supremacists… Farrier walks his phlegm between his different destinations and gives of his person. If most of the phenomena filmed are fascinating, it is however necessary to take a step back from what we are looking at – especially since most sequences only devote 10 to 15 minutes to their subject. the dark tourism is a concept that is still based on the exploration of sites and communities often marked by terrible stories. The strange mixture between morbid curiosity, search for thrills and true tribute could therefore repel some.