THE MORNING LIST
The existential crisis, whether it comes from a medical diagnosis or from a mysterious machine to predict destiny, is on the menu of the series of the week, which also have in common to have mainly chosen comedy to deal with it.
“Aspergirl”: a family on the spectrum
There’s a mystery at the root ofAspergirl : how Louison (Nicole Ferroni), in his thirties, and his son Guilhem (Carel Brown), who enters 6e, have they been able to get this far without being diagnosed? She, above all, who likes to take refuge in small enclosed spaces, who cannot help arranging her environment (supermarket shelves, wardrobe, schedules) by color and who cannot read and hear the words of others only literally. As for Guilhem, who only eats white food, he is obsessed with volcanoes and puts his impulses into action, even if he has to plant a fork in the hand of the fellow student who stole the last rice pudding from the canteen. .
In any case, we had understood it from the reading of the title, Aspergirl is a comedic new treatment of autism, as far removed from the image of the scholarly idiot of Rain Man than the often violent realism of Outstanding. Here, mother and son are diagnosed at the same time, and this discovery triggers a series of epiphanies and catastrophes that result in a tribe of well-drawn secondary characters, from the overwhelmed father (Mustapha Abourachid) to the colleague (Victoire Du Bois) which will lead Louison to reinvent himself. Resolutely optimistic and burlesque, Aspergirl takes a while to find its heartstrings. Once the balance between comedy and feeling is achieved, the series ends too quickly, with the promise of a next season. T. S.
SSeries created by Judith Godineau and Hadrien Cousin, based on an idea by Sophie Taineau, directed by Lola Roqueplo, with Nicole Ferroni, Carel Brown, Mustapha Abourachid, Suzanne De Baecque (France 2023, 10 × 22 minutes). OCS Max, the first two episodes on April 6, then two episodes on Thursday, and on OCS on demand.
“The Big Door Prize”: a machine for choosing your destiny
For 2 dollars and some personal information, a strange machine (“Morpho”), which appeared as if by magic in the local drugstore, provides the inhabitants of Deerfield, a very middle-class American town, with a rectangle of paper on which is written the road they need to borrow to realize their full potential. Abstract, flattering or on the contrary too close to reality, the revelation will have various consequences on each member of the community, described over the course of ten episodes, each of which revolves around a particular character.
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