🇯🇵 When life is complicated, simple joys are more than welcome. If you like quiet contemplation, then the Japanese series #MeikenchikudeChushokuwo is for you. Take a moment to appreciate architecture, food, and good company !
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/02/08/ma-couleur-preferee-est-sepia/
Fin janvier, j’ai remarqué que le premier épisode de la saison 2 de Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo avait été sous-titré… et évidemment, je n’ai toujours pas parlé de la saison 1 ! Devinez donc ce qu’on fait aujourd’hui. Lancée pendant l’été 2020 par BS-TV Tokyo (la version satellite de TV Tokyo) et co-produite avec BS-TV [&hellip
🇨🇦 If you like parody for the sake of parody, go ahead. Otherwise I'm not fully sure French Canadian comedy #ComplètementLycée is that strong. But it sure understood the assignment.
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/02/10/i-dont-want-to-be-anything-other-than-me/
Le gros problème que j’ai avec la parodie dans les séries… c’est qu’il s’agit de séries. C’est évidemment subjectif, hein, mais mon genre préféré n’est pas nécessairement le mieux placé pour cet exercice, qui supporte assez mal le long terme. Ce qui est drôle dans la parodie, c’est bien souvent de percevoir ce qui est [&hellip
🇺🇸 Desperately looking for a sci-fi series to fall in love with, I tried the first episode of #ThePeripheral, since it had just been renewed. And, um, the search continues...
En ce moment, ça me dirait bien de me trouver une série de science-fiction à dévorer. J’ai remarqué que ça me fait souvent ça quand je teste un pilote de série de science-fiction qui s’avère complètement décevant, et vu que j’ai tenté The Ark récemment, ça se tient. Du coup, je lorgne du côté des [&hellip
🇨🇠A short webseries produced in Switzerland is my sci-fi series of the day, as #Bâtards tackles a lot of issues in just a few minutes. What a performance !
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/02/17/la-suisse-a-dincroyables-batards/
La tension est à son maximum. Les visages se crispent. Sur les écrans, les mâchoires sont serrées. C’est la dernière ligne droite pour savoir qui va gagner. En jeu ? Le droit d’avoir une enfance, tout simplement. Dans le futur de Bâtards, tout a mal tourné. Ce que l’on appelle la Grande Crise a perturbé [&hellip
🇰🇷 As #TheCompanyYouKeep was about to premiere, I thought it could be fun to take a look at the original South Korean series it is based on, #GungminYeoreobun. What it sets up is gonna come up a lot in the year to come !
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/02/19/we-never-know-whom-we-marry/
Il y a quelque chose dans l’air ? Qu’est-ce qui se passe ? Cette année, trois diffuseurs américains ont décidé de commander des séries très similaires… et vu qu’elles n’ont pas vraiment l’excuse d’avoir un pitch super commun (comme, mettons, un police procedural par exemple), ça crée un drôle de hasard. Pourquoi tout d’un coup [&hellip
🇺🇸 We discussed the original, let's talk about the remake. Although it turns out that #TheCompanyYouKeep is actually doing quite a lot of original work !
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/02/24/we-never-know-whom-we-date/
Puisqu’on parlait de Gungmin Yeoreobun! il y a quelques jours, jetons donc un oeil à son remake étasunien, maintenant qu’il a effectivement démarré. The Company You Keep a changé pas mal de chose au concept d’origine, parfois à un degré surprenant. Pour moi en tout cas ! Alors certes, une partie de ces changements étaient [&hellip
🇨🇴 🇲🇽 They say History is written by the victors, but South American series #LaCabezadeJoaquĂnMurrieta wants to explore the consequences of defeat on the losing side. The first episode starts very well... and then becomes confusing.
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/02/26/il-etait-une-fois-dans-le-sud/
Il y a des pays qui ont été de grands producteurs de westerns… et il y a les pays sur les écrans desquels c’est plus rare. Sur Amazon Prime Video, c’est une série mexicano-colombienne qui a débarqué en ce début d’année pour essayer d’offrir un point de vue différent sur une Histoire que, autrement, on [&hellip
🇧🇷 Multiverses are popular these days, including in the Brazilian kids series #MilanoMultiverso ! If you know/have kids, there's a lot of adventure for them to find in its first season... with *some* interesting ideas.
Quand j’étais jeune, il n’y avait qu’un univers et on était parfaitement contentes. Les jeunes de maintenant, il leur faut des multiverses, sinon rien ! Je plaisante, mais c’est vrai que le concept de multivers est devenu omniprésent en l’espace de quelques années. Pour les jeunes générations, il relève désormais de l’évidence (alors qu’à mon [&hellip
âť” The new "Take Five" articles are dedicated to compiling together the reviews of 5 pilots/first episodes of shows that didn't get their own article.
Which shows ? Well, there's really only one way to know...
Dans cette deuxième édition de Take Five, la rubrique inaugurée le mois dernier pour parler vite fait du premier épisode de séries qui n’ont pas eu l’occasion d’avoir leur propre review, il y a du bon d’un côté, et du français de l’autre. Non, pardon, c’est gratuit : j’ai aussi quelques problèmes avec la série [&hellip
🇮🇱 I hope you made sure you didn't miss Israeli series #Manayek on arte, which I recommend the night in premiered. And if I'm recommending a TV show about cops, you know there's a good reason, which I discuss in my review of the first episode :
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/03/02/le-systeme-protege-les-siens/
Jamais à court de bonnes idées en ce qui concerne sa programmation internationale, arte a décidé de lancer ce soir la série israélienne Manayek, initialement proposée en 2020 dans son pays natal et comptant à présent deux saisons. Le plus intéressant au sujet de sa diffusion originale étant probablement qu’il s’agit d’une série de la [&hellip
🇨🇦 There have been several shows about rape and/or rapists over the years, and French Canadian series #LEmpereur attempts to be one of them by dissecting a man's actions both in 2005 and 2015. I'm just not sure it's for me.
La semaine a été longue et froide, et on a toutes bien besoin de se détendre. Forcément, une série semble être une bonne idée pour cela. Quelque chose de sympa. Quelque chose de léger. Quelque chose sans prise de tête. Trigger warning : violS. Ou alors, oui, effectivement, on pourrait aller dans une toute autre [&hellip
🇲🇽 Granted, on a surface level, Mexican series #TrĂada evokes vaguely #OrphanBlack. But judging from the first episode, it is very clear that the two shows' approach couldn't be more different, as I explain in today's review.
Une prise d’otage dans un cabinet médical : une femme nerveuse pénètre en tirant sur quiconque se place sur sa route, pour emmener avec elle la psychiatre qui y exerce. Les autorités sont prévenues et le capitaine Solana arrive bientôt avec toute une équipe d’intervention. Une fusillade conduit l’otage à être blessée, et la femme [&hellip
🇫🇷 Sorry, sorry, I'm late ! #LesSiffleurs is has already aired on France2 and I really wanted to say a few words about this mini-series airing for March 8th... But first, I had to cut some expletives.
🇺🇸 Tonight we're talking about death, which means we're also talking about life. But, because #NotDeadYet is the kind of show it is, not in a very nuanced way.
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/03/10/sans-remords-et-sans-regrets/
Not Dead Yet est une série que j’avais envie par avance d’aimer, et je n’y suis pas parvenue ; mais c’est aussi une série que j’avais envie par avance de détester, et je n’y suis pas parvenue. Il faut dire que je n’ai aucune forme d’affection pour son actrice principale, Gina Rodriguez, qui ne s’est [&hellip
🇮🇳 Two years ago, I couldn't find enough compliments to give to Indian series #TheEmpire, dedicated to the mughal empire. Today I stand before you having to talk about another period drama, #TAJ... far from being as convincing.
🇯🇵 If you forgot everything overnight, what story would your social media posts tell you about yourself ? This is the question at the center of #whoamI, a Japanese thriller in which Instagram could hold all the answers.
– Elle a l’air heureuse… – Oui, tu avais toujours l’air heureuse. Trigger warning : tentative de suicide ? Si du jour au lendemain, vous perdiez la mémoire… comment sauriez-vous qui vous êtes ? Mais attention, pas question de reconstituer votre personnalité à partir de ce que vous disent vos proches : ce sont forcément [&hellip
🇳🇿 Lulu refuses to grow up, and in particular, to find the perfect Jewish husband that'll make her parents happy. But life is never that simple, as New Zealand dramedy #KidSister shows.
http://www.ladyteruki.com/2023/03/18/date-pork-but-marry-kosher/
« If I have done my job right, you should be old enough to guilt yourself by now« . Quelque chose que je viens d’apprendre (parce que, je l’avoue, je n’avais jamais eu la curiosité de regarder, mais l’information était parfaitement disponible), c’est qu’en Nouvelle-Zélande, seulement 5274 personnes juives sont recensées aux dernières nouvelles. Alors, certes, la [&hellip
🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇧🇪 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇪🇸 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇴 🇨🇿 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 🇺🇾 We're all tired after a very full festival, but here is my giant recap of ALL 36 SHOWS seen on #SeriesMania (or rather, its godsent of a temporary online platform, Series Mania+).
Then came that time of the month again, when we talk about the first episode of shows who didn't get to have their own review. And, in some cases, don't deserve to. Admittedly we also had that during the festival, but those five are extra.
Je vous l’accorde, on a déjà parlé de beaucoup de premiers épisodes de série ce mois-ci, festival oblige. Et pourtant, ya du rab, je vous le mets ? Cette troisième édition de Take Five inclut en majorité des formats assez courts (une demi-heure environ), parce que, ma foi, ça a été ma priorité ce mois-ci. [&hellip
🇯🇵 For our first article since we switched to Ko-fi, I had to pick the right show. Naturally I decided to discuss an "appetite drama", #NagatantoAoto. Don't watch it on an empty stomach !
🇪🇬 There are all kinds of series during the Ramadan, I thought it'd be nice to talk about a fantasy series for the whole family, inspired by a love of books. More specifically, Egyptian series #GatSaleema seems inspired by fairy tales.
🇯🇵 Sometimes all a show has to do is to tell the stories that happen while you have a cat. They're not impressive stories, they're not surprising stories, they're not complex stories. They're the #GuGuDatteNekodeAru stories.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Life-is-what-happens-next-to-a-cat-F1F5KETCY
âť” As you all know, April has been a difficult month for me on a personal level, but I didn't want it to end without discussing Arab-speaking shows, for several reasons. Which shows ? Clicking is the only way to find out !
🇿🇦 Adulting is hard. Following the lives of four friends, the first episode of South African drama #Adulting starts as fun but slowly uncovers a lot of nuance. Honestly ? You need to see this.
https://ko-fi.com/post/No-one-told-you-life-was-gonna-be-this-way-B0B5L0JS8
🇪🇬 There was A LOT going on in the first episode of Egyptian series #GaafarElOmda, but lodged in its very uneven setup is a story rarely told of fatherhood and pain.
🇦🇷 On paper, Argentine series #Planners seems innocuous enough : the world of party planners is not exactly the darkest setting out there. And yet, its first episode is gloomier than anticipated... with a hint of (annoying) hope.
https://ko-fi.com/post/This-my-party-I-can-cry-when-I-want-to-R5R0L3G9Y
🇳🇴 The future depicted by Norwegian dystopia #Arkitekten is one where people have mostly underpaid internships or demeaning jobs (if you're lucky enough to work), and as such can't pay rent. If that terrifies you, GOOD, it should.
🇲🇽 If you like to see women struggle against patriarchal oppression, there's basically an entire subgenre of period dramas for that now. Mexican drama #LasPelotaris1926 is one of them, and this time, it's about sport !
🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 It's finally back. Huzzah ! #TheGreat returned for a third season in May, which gave me an excuse to talk about it again. Despite seeing it many times in the past year, I hadn't reviewed season 2 yet, so let's remedy that.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Whats-your-blood-type-Im-blue-N4N0L84XY
🇺🇸 It's always a pleasure to spend time with the friends of #GrandCrew, the sweetest comedy you're not watching. Or maybe you are, in which case you should talk about it more. See ? Like this !
🇫🇷 Lately everyone seemed to be saying : "try #LesRandonneuses, it's really good for a French series on TFHein". And you know what ? They were EXACTLY right...
https://ko-fi.com/post/Im-gonna-take-that-mountain-C0C7LH73N
🇩🇪 German series #DerGreif attempts something a lot of genre television has explored in the past few years, rooted in both fantasy and nostalgia. But it explores it with adult eyes... and a unique questioning of mental health.
🇮🇩 Exams are a lot of stress when you're a student ; the pressure around academic results is not discussed much in most of European or North American TV shows, but much more often in Asian teen dramas, like Indonesian series #APlus.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Ton-seul-soucis-cest-lecole-R5R4LOFEK
🇳🇴 Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And sometimes scary things happen to incredible people. In the first episode of Norwegian drama #Etterglød, Ester learns that she has a cancer. But it's not really a show about cancer...
🇰🇷 Earlier this spring, sci-fi teen war drama (?!) #BanggwaHooJeonjaengHwalong, aka #DutyAfterSchool, tried to discuss... well, a lot of things, as you can see. Some of it quite timely. Here is my series-wide review.
âť” You know how it works : I offer five quick reviews, but I don't tell you in advance what shows they are about. The only way to know is to read them !
🇨🇦 In the latest French Canadian series for young viewers, #PremierTrio, Chloé must make a big decision about her future as a hockey player. And that's where this first episode shines : in the decision.
In a world where there is so much to see, isn't it nice when a completely forgettable show starts, and you really don't need to add it to your to-watch list ? Anyway, I reviewed the first episode of Swedish series #BarracudaQueens.
🇺🇦 I wanted to write less often this year, so I could write articles like this : through two different Ukrainian series, #IaNadiya and #Mama, I discussed (and questioned) the role that fiction plays in the ongoing war.
🇳🇿 Let me warn you that in today's impromptu publication, you're going to see something very much out of the ordinary : I'm gonna say something positive about a show heavily relying on romance, #DoubleParked !
🇩🇪 🇰🇪 Make sure you don't risk missing out on a golden opportunity to see an African show. Indeed in June, arte started airing German-Kenyan series #CountryQueen...
🇯🇵 Fun fact : this review was written because of a video of a certain President drinking beer, which somehow made me decide to watch #WakakoZake. But I'm not explaining why in the review, actually. Instead I talk about alcohol.
https://ko-fi.com/post/A-consommer-avec-moderation-C0C6MJL2O
🇨🇦 That day I didn't have much to offer, except a quick review of the first episode of Canadian series #AlterBoys. A tough watch, set in a conversion camp for young gay men.
🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 🇸🇪 🇨🇠What's up with orcas these days ? Why is a billionaire getting involved ? Why are so many people dying in our waters ? I'm actually talking about #DerSchwarm / #TheSwarm, as this is my season-wide review.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Fuck-you-but-thanks-for-all-the-fish-F1F0MML54
âť” You know the rules : I give you a quick review of the first episode of 5 different shows... but I don't tell you which shows they are until you're reading the article. Roll the dice, see what happens !
🇺🇸 This might just be my longest review this year yet ! I discuss the first season of American series #Silo... Don't worry, I've made sure you won't run into spoilers. You should never run down the stairs anyway.
🇿🇦 It's getting hot in here... and the fault probably lies with the latest South African thriller premiering on Netflix, #FatalSeduction. It should feel familiar to you !
https://ko-fi.com/post/How-to-get-away-with-Adultery-A0A8MZL11
🇵🇠The latest Amazon Prime original in the Philippines (and yes, I did say "latest", there is more than one !) is a charming story set in the world of fashion. #FitCheck might not be very original or even expensive to produce, but good luck resisting its charm.
🇦🇷 🇲🇽 If you're sad that multicam sitcoms just aren't as common as they used to be, well, good news : Disney+ has launched a new series just for you. The Mexican/Argentinian comedy #CHUECO is very old school... for better or for worse.
🇧🇷 Let's talk about Kpop, but also about a Brazilian series. And it's... for younger viewers ? Is #AlémdoGuardaRoupa just an opportunistic series trying to exploit a trend ?! Or...
🇦🇺 The new comedy #GoldDiggers, set during the Australian gold rush, is not going to let you get a word in edgewise ! But that's exactly the reason why its energy and its two lead female characters have really struck gold.
🇮🇹 Just like in the previous article, I discuss a period drama set in the 19th century with a female character at its core. But this time, it's Italian series #LaLeggeDiLidiaPoët, a legal drama about being a woman in an unjust world.
🇿🇦 When a new medical drama produced in South Africa brings up all kinds of complex and interesting topics, you can guess that this review is about #Hartklop.
🇮🇳 This is probably going to be my favorite Indian drama this year. This is probably going to be my favorite drama this year, in fact. #SweetKaaramCoffee is the kind of show I love to love. And it's also a road trip about choices.
🇯🇵 In this review we're heading for Japan, and in particular for a southern village by the sea. In the new dramedy #Barakamon, a professional calligrapher struggles with self-doubt and finds enthusiasm thanks to a little girl...
🇰🇪 Growing up poor means making early choices : soccer life or gang life ? Unless maybe they're made for you... The first episode of Kenyan series #Pepeta is a terrifying and inexorable watch.
🇧🇷 Have you ever dreamed about the possibility of, oh I don't know, going through the screen and living in a TV show ? This is what happens to screenwriter Isabel, in the first episode of Brazilian series #Novela !
âť” Every month, I select the first episode of 5 TV shows I haven't written about, and surprise you with a "multi" review ! What's in July's batch ? Some good discoveries and... the other kind.
🇯🇵 Are high school students so rough now, that being harsh with them is the only solution to "teach" them ? That's more or less what the first episode of #SaikounoKyoushi implies, behind its time travel story.
🇫🇷 As if launching a restaurant wasn't stressful enough, now chef Adriana Soukho has to deal with unplanned events. Timing really is everything, in #Cuisineinterne and in telephagy in general.
🇯🇵 For the first time in probably forever, I decided today to review the first episode of an anime ! I just couldn't get #TengokuDaimakyou out of my head, so... I stopped trying.
Oh my... perfect casting... but Naru should be blonde in cannon...
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