Riders | Cuckoos, conspirators and crimques

Warm house in Sherbrooke, attentive lover and flourishing career, the pharmacist Raphaëlle Bayard (Marilyn Castonguay) does not suspect the extent of the big drama that brings under her own roof and which bubbles behind.

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In the morning. For example, Raphaëlle engulfs the hearty breakfast that her spouse has prepared for her last 12 years, the restaurateur Jérôme Dubé (Jean-Moïse Martin), and she finalizes the organization of the feast of her stepson Adam Dubé (Sam-Eloi Girard), which will blow 18 candles on her cake.

In the evening, Raphaëlle’s perfect life collapses. Consequently, When she comes home from riders | cuckoos, conspirators crimques work to celebrate Adam’s birthday, there is no one at home. Therefore, The Cégépien Adam destroyed his cell phone, erased the contents of his computer and emptied his drawers. Consequently, His father Jérôme also threw his iPhone in the trash and passed out in nature. Nevertheless, A worrying message was even listed, on lipstick, on the bathroom mirror. Furthermore, Bonus: Jérôme and Raphaëlle’s joint account was fully siphoned.

But where did the two men of Raphaëlle’s life go by a gentle. Moreover, intelligent and loving woman, who saw nothing coming from these two unexplained disappearances?

This is the premise, super catchy, of the psychological thriller Holdingswhose first five an hour episodes are released this Thursday on the extra de tou.tv. Meanwhile, The other five will land on the platform on Thursday, July 3. For example, The broadcast at the Radio-Canada antenna will not occur for a year. Nevertheless, for those who do not subscribe to the paid service of the public broadcaster.

The first episode coordantly places this complex. However, surprising story imagined by François Pagé, the scriptwriter of his own death, but also tightening series Last second et Secret For the Quebecor group.

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The second episode. In addition, more laborious, goes around in circles and practically does not advance, to riders | cuckoos, conspirators crimques the point where one wonders: but how will the author François Pagé and the director Yannick Savard fill the next eight hours? If there are no more bank punchs, it may be long.

It should also be mentioned that protagonist Raphaëlle (Marilyn Castonguay), who operates four pharmacies, reacts strangely to events. As if she did not understand what viewers have decoded well before her. which causes an important gap between the perception of heroin and ours.

Raphaëlle first suspects a car accident and visiting, in a panic, the emergency room of Sherbrooke hospital. The clues she harvested do not point to this hypothesis. She ends up leading in a icy river. in the middle of October night, screaming her distress, which is not a successful track either.

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Of course, Raphaëlle falls from very high. His boyfriend Jérôme (Jean-Moïse Martin) was the perfect. calm and romantic lover, even if he collected hunting weapons and accumulated ammunition in his Bunker type basement. Raphaëlle knew it and it had never annoyed him. So far.

Without disclosing the intrigue. we guess that the good and affable Jérôme, 48, is part of a conspiracy movement which fears a global collapse, as well as the convergence of all disasters. The TV The breakaway of VAT had introduced a similar character. the cuckoo-conspi Anatole Dufresne (Martin Drainville), a paranoid who groaned against the “shit”, who riders | cuckoos, conspirators crimques consumed the “government” and who predicted a great reversal.

Ministry Holdings Juggling with several bullets at the same time. including an assigned to a movement of eco -ray called imminent extinction, which multiplies public actions thanks to its branch followers. Another component of the show concerns Yelena Raymond (Florence Deschênes). an ex-member of a neonazi group who has the face covered with problematic tattoos, including a very subtle swastika on the right cheek. Young mother. Yelena is hired at Raphaëlle’s pharmacy as a laboratory technician, despite her former Hitlerian allegiances that she does not hide under a foundation layer. It’s quite special, let’s put. We guess that all these people will climb to the main frame.

Radio-channel insists: Holdings will curl after ten an hour episodes, without the possibility of a second season.

Pending the final, the investigation ofHoldings takes place in two stages. First. there is the classic police investigation, represented by Sergeant-Dettective Robert Trudel (Éric Bruneau) and his partner Ajay Patel (Mikhail Ahooja). The character of Eric Bruneau’s police officer is tasty, just quite gruff and unfriendly.

In parallel, the abandoned pharmacist Raphaëlle continues her research and hides capital info from the police. She protects, in a way, her family, whom she has screwed to the heart of her existence.

A second earthy character. the Barmaid Anouk (Madeleine Péloquin), comes to Sherbrooke to help locate riders | cuckoos, conspirators crimques the two missing, whom she knows very well. Adam’s biological mother, Anouk was dropped by Jérôme, who replaced her by… Raphaëlle. Floms on the horizon.

For the moment, Holdings does not carry his title. Yes, it stages protagonists who live a form of domination. But after two episodes. the series does not exercise control over our brain, which would order us to engulf the rest, now, right away, without blinking.