The series to discover during the confinement period

Published on : 03/25/2020 – 16:50Modified : 03/25/2020 – 16:49

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The Culture department of France 24 has selected three ideal series for you to change your mind in these times of confinement. A dive into the world of French hip-hop, a good dose of science fiction, and in this period when there is no more football on TV, the origins of the football … Read before lighting the little screen.

Validated, first series on French rap

At one time, certain NTM songs were banned on the air. Today, rap fills stages and even has its first series, “Validated” on Canal +, an original creation in ten effective episodes of 30 minutes. It is signed by the director of Kairas and “Taxi 5”, Frank Gastambide, who knows his subject well.

“Validated”: the story of Clement (“Apache”), who, at the cheek, will make a place for himself in the rapgame, but also a formidable enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7vElK_vtHc

The strengths of this series:

• A trio of friends, fans of rap and its codes, who make us discover this closed environment, where rivalries are not legends. (Without disclosing, a label will suffer from the impulsive nature of a pseudo manager).
• The beautiful range of leading artists from the hip-hop scene from Ninho, Lacrim to Kool Shen, thus showing the diversity of French rap.
• Its realism: the virtual absence of women (we hope to see rappers in the second season already announced), the denigration of those who stay on the floor, the marketing blows and the “dirty war” to get to the top.

Westworld, season 3 (OCS), a jewel of anticipation

If the philosophical questions bother you, if behind the coronavirus you see a divine warning, Dolores, heroine-android of Westworld, could allay your torments. “We believe only what suits us,” she explains, pragmatic, to a puzzled young man from the world around him.

This world in 2058 has only one god: technology. It allows men to access their memories (and not always the best) via glasses, to choose their dreams by programmed pill, or even to solve their psychological problems with the voice of their best friend, yet deceased, but able to make phone calls to chat about the meaning of life.

All followed, all filmed, actions anticipated: this company, we guess, is also subject to permanent rating. It is in this universe that we find our life-like robots ready to take revenge on humanity, starting with the leaders of the company Incite specializing in artificial intelligence. (In the first two seasons, the androids became aware of the suffering they endured in a lawless amusement park. If you are lost, look at the previous seasons!)

Does technology make for a better future? Is our mind made to believe (in god, in technology or in the technological god)? Will we be able to evolve in parallel worlds in the near future? These questions cross this new season with a futuristic aesthetic and an alarming rhythm. Nothing is explained but everything is shown by the brilliant Christopher Nolan who compiles his classics, the Bible, Philip K. Dick and the Wachowski (to whom we owe Matrix).

With Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel in particular.

The English Game (Netflix) or football before football

Here is the most “British” series of the moment: it focuses on a historical period (the end of the 19th century) to evoke the birth of the most popular sport in the world: football.

We follow two captains from 2 teams, that of the aristocrats who invented this sport, and that of the cotton mill workers in the north of England.

Before the rules, before the leagues, before the media, before it became a religion, “soccer” was a class affair.

Julian Fellowes, who made us all dream with “Downton Abbey” is the initiator of these 6 episodes inspired by real facts.

Of undeniable historical interest, the series will appeal to fans of this sport, but also to a wider audience, because football is only a red thread to address many social issues of the time (cotton crisis, strikes, status of women, paternity …).

Where Julian Fellowes excelled in the psychology and nuances of the characters (Downton Abbey era), this time he fails to give them the scope they deserve. Worse: the match scenes lack intensity and the sequences appear too saucy. The skimpy format of the miniseries deserved more.

There remains the formidable performance of Kevin Guthrie in the jersey and leather shoes of the first professional player in history, the Scottish Fergus Suter, a former stonemason.

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