“Nona and her daughters”, “American Rust”, “Gossip Girl 2021”… What are the series of the week worth?<

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T The Art of Crime (France 2)

After Géricault, Monet, Courbet, Degas and Van Gogh, it's the turn of the he artist Camille Claudel to be at the center of the investigation carried out by the duo Florence Chassagne-Antoine Verlay, respectively art historian and police officer within the Central Office for the fight against the trafficking of cultural property. The latter are requisitioned in order to elucidate the murder of an expert collector of the works of the expressionist sculptor and painter, who was shot in the heart. While everything accuses a young visual artist, also an admirer of Camille Claudel, Chassagne and Verlay are confused by a new lead... Read more

O Gossip Girl 2021, season 1 (Warner TV)

What's new on the Upper East Side, the most chic neighborhood in New York? Almost ten years after the end of the Gossip Girl series (2007-2012, may she rest in peace!), we are immersed in the intrigues, loves and torments of the local golden youth. We can easily imagine the reasoning that led to this reboot as smooth and luxurious as a perfume ad in a duty free: how to renew the heroes of yesteryear (remember the sulphurous Chuck, Blair the plague, and all their spoiled rotten pals), their pre-#MeToo alcove secrets, and their uninhibited straight white heir shenanigans? By applying a bit of twenty-four-carat diversity to a very fresh generation… Read more

Y American Rust, miniseries (Canal+)

Buell, Pennsylvania, is a small town in the "Rust Belt", this region of the American Northeast devastated by deindustrialization, with its abandoned factory devoured by rust, its poor workers, its idle youth and its opioid traffic. Del Harris, a late career police chief, tries to deal with his own addictions when the body of a former colleague is found. Everything accuses Billy, the son of his lover, Grace Poe, a union seamstress. At the same time, Billy's best friend, Isaac, flees the area in hopes of a better life… Read More

O Hashtag Boomer, season 1 (OCS Max)

Hassan, Dany, Margot and Raoul, inseparable friends in Montreuil, in the Paris suburbs, are almost 30 years old. Their intimate and family lives, their careers and their desires are slowly asserting themselves, but never cease to come up against the vision of the world, of love, of the education of their parents and of another era... The generational conflict , between ethical incompatibility and technological abyss, can it nevertheless lead to a constructive relationship?… Read more

On the platforms

T The Improbable Assassin by Olof Palme, miniseries (Netflix)

Y Mr Inbetween, seasons 1 and 2 (Disney+)

With his shaved head and goatee, he is reminiscent of Walter White. And, in fact, Ray Shoesmith belongs to a generation of antiheroes who no longer have the wind in their sails, to those ultra-violent men who have gone out of fashion since Breaking Bad pushed the cursor all the way, thereby putting an end to a reign inaugurated by The Sopranos, The Shield and Dexter. However, Mr Inbetween, whose first two seasons have been available since Wednesday November 24 on Disney+, is quite irresistible. We follow the turbulent daily life of Ray (Scott Ryan, also creator of the series), deadpan henchman of a local Australian mafia, whose routine consists of raping, torturing and killing his victims while taking care of his granddaughter (Chika Yasumura), of his handicapped brother (Nicholas Cassim), of his not really smart best friend (Justin Rosniak) and soon of his new companion (Brooke Satchwell)… Read more

T Hawkeye, season 1 (Disney+)

“Your problem is your brand image. Dissipated student, martial arts champion and top archer Kate Bishop is a fan of retired Avengers member Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye. She saw him at work when he was very young, while New York was on fire and blood – a scene from the film Avengers (2012), presented from a new angle, opens the series. But it must be recognized that this modern Robin Hood does not have the charisma of Thor, Captain America, Hulk and others. He is therefore not entitled to his blockbuster film and, like Wanda Maximoff and Falcon, resumes service in a series, the first two episodes of which relate the meeting between Barton and Bishop, who will take over in the costume of Hawkeye, and their fight against a threat linked to the brutal past of the superhero, among others… Read more

Y Nona and her daughters, season 1 (Arte.tv)

Head of a Parisian family planning agency, Nona (Miou-Miou) is 70, 44-year-old triplets (Virginia Ledoyen, Clotilde Hesme and Valérie Donzelli) – one of whom still lives under her roof –, a secret lover (Michel Vuillermoz) and a stomach that will soon continue to grow. Because Dr. Trüffel is sure as two and two make four: Nona is pregnant. From whom? Mystery: the DNA does not match that of her lover. Thus begins for the tribe a strange quest where the intimate collides with the social, science with the supernatural, the comic with the tragic... Read more

T La Réalité face, miniseries (Netflix)

Kevin Hart, comedy star across the Atlantic, tries his hand at drama. In this miniseries, he plays a humorist and blockbuster actor who finds himself embarked on a criminal intrigue by his big brother, played by a particularly convincing Wesley Snipes. Solidly produced, punctuated by short episodes (35 mins), full of twists and turns, True Story (its title in the original version) is so sewn with white threads that it allows you to knit a very honest popcorn evening. And too bad if the series has nothing original to offer, neither on the script nor in its staging, elegant but agreed. P.L.