THE MORNING LIST
In addition to the notable French medical series HippocratesThis week sees the return of the spies the old man for an unexpected and completely successful second season. To watch it a little more relaxed, feel free to dedicate an afternoon or two to Murder Clubthe nice parody thriller from M6.
“Hippocrates”, season 3: the hospital will collapse
Four years separate the last season ofHippocrates of the previous one, which ended with the first shocks of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Raymond-Poincaré hospital, already weakened by a constant lack of resources and by the suicide of a young intern, Igor. The third season makes the radical decision to avoid the pandemic, to better analyze its consequences in an already bloodless hospital system. The observation, sometimes unbearably violent, is structured in six episodes of extreme tension, written down to the bone, which leave no room for affection or feelings, except that of a job well done.
The season, compressed into just a few days in Dr. Brun’s (Bouli Lanners) department, confirms the permanence of two-tier medicine: When emergency rooms close, younger doctors ignore the hierarchy to divert wandering patients to an abandoned hospital. wing of the hospital, called “Hotel California”. The “Calif” becomes the solution of last resort, the alternative when the system stagnates, but also the place where a little bit of humanity remains. These missionary doctors are played with moving fidelity by the same actors as in previous seasons and filmed with tenderness and deference by Thomas Lilti, never more precise than when he recounts the profession he decided to abandon. In. F.
Series created and directed by Thomas Lilti. With Louise Bourgoin, Alice Belaïdi, Karim Leklou, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Anne Consigny, Bouli Lanners (Fr., 2024, 6 × 52 min). Two episodes on Monday, November 11 at 9 p.m. on Canal+. A la carte on MyCanal.
“Murder Club”: the latest French-style thriller
Featured in Séries Mania for its main protagonist, Tiphaine Daviot, who won the award for best actress in a French series, Murder Club strives to give a facelift to the figure of the police officer made in France in the person of Amélia Delcourt, a tenacious but clumsy police officer, tired of “Bring the accused” and flanked by a tenderly intrusive mother.
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