Call My Agent!

[SylvieLaufeydottir]

There must be some other people on here that love this show. It is just so, so good. Sensitive, funny with a light touch, smart enough not to tidy things up neatly, properly character-driven. I don't even mind the streak of French farce because it lightens what would otherwise become a little grim. And a side benefit of watching is that I have to actually pay attention and can't zone out on my phone. Plus I pick up Parisian slang.

I just watched the episode where Andrea's baby is born and afterwards Arlette finds Hicham scrubbing the carpet and quietly crying. It really got me in the gut, and was done without some kind of sentimental wrap-up or moral. He'd made mistakes but it sucked to be him that day, end of story.

It’s fantastic. The British remake was shit. Nothing like the charm of the original.

I didn't watch the British remake; I had strong doubts they'd be able to nail what made the original so wonderful, and the reviews pretty much confirmed that. It's really hard to culturally transplant that kind of thing; you have to take the essence and flesh it out completely differently in the new culture.

Camille Cottin is such a standout. And her wardrobe... [dribble]

We love to see Arlette and Jean Gabin. The woman who plays Andréa's girlfriend is in a crime whodunnit called Ce que Pauline ne vous dit pas (What Pauline isn't telling you) which is on Walter Presents. She is Pauline, suspected of killing her husband. If anyone has seen it, please don't say what happens, because we're still on the 3rd of 4 episodes!

I do sometimes wonder if Arlette gets a bit short-changed, plotwise? They centre the four principal agents in the credits but she's the only one of the four who never really gets a plot. The other three are always busy fucking up their own lives. In some ways I like that Arlette just does her job and lives her life happy with Jean Gabin while seeing everything and saying nothing, and in other ways I think it's proper sexist that young nubile Camille gets so much chunky plot and the resident older woman so little.

I loved this. So many things, I desperately fancy Assaad Bouab and watched this because he was in it and I stayed for all the characters and the script. It was just spot on all the time.

I didn't like the way they changed Camille's hair in the last series, and the way they shot the episodes made it look more film-like, which I didn't like. I think Noémie is a hoot, but she irritates my DH .

God I LOVE that show!

Your take is interesting on Arlette as I took her as the "plus ca change..."

She has been there and done that. She looks on wrily as they are now being there and doing that. The next crop are in the wings to be there and do that.

We don't change that much, us humans.

I loved all the characters but I love that tyope of comedy.

The style is pretty cool too!

We loved it. I've nearly forgotten enough to make it rewatchable. Hurray : )

I got all excited when I saw the thread title, thinking that the promised film or new series was about to be released. 😢

Sorry 😥I feel your pain. But I've been rewatching and needed someone to talk to about it.

I think my current favourite celeb appearance is Monica Bellucci, when she tries to sleep with Gabriel because she can't be single and doesn't know how to make tea or open her front door.

In penitence, I looked for new news about the alleged movie and S5, but nothing since 2021... Which is concerning 😥

My parents love this, the original one. I could never get into it.

Absolutely my favourite show. I was bereft when I got to the end. I loved how you were led to believe that Noémie was a bit of a shallow airhead at first, but then as we got to know her, she was so far from that.

Also I wondered how it would work as a Hollywood version, because part of it is how incredibly seriously the French take cinema as an art, not just an entertainment industry.

Also I wondered how it would work as a Hollywood version, because part of it is how incredibly seriously the French take cinema as an art, not just an entertainment industry.

Yeah, in some ways it's redeemed by that, right? The agents indulge the childishness and neediness of their stars and justify their own moral flexibility because they genuinely and passionately believe that they're enabling the creation of real art. A Hollywood analogue would just come off shallow, cynical and totally amoral.

Loved it

i too saw the OP title and thought a new series was out!

fun show!

Oh I loved this too.

As regards Arlette, the actress is quite elderly and - like Arlette - already has her reputation, so I assumed she just didn't want a whole heap of exhausting scenes.

Somehow I only started watching it last Christmas. Binge watched the whole thing and then did it a second time. It’s absolutely brilliant, so so funny.

The actor playing Mathias was in a couple of episodes Heartstopper season 2, playing a French (pretty useless again) dad, and was looking good, good haircut and clothes!

As the ex of olivia coleman playing the mum superbly - a v strange match!

I genuinely can't make up my mind about it. I like that they show that Arlette has had a pretty wild life with lots of fun, and I like that she's probably the shrewdest character who knows all the things the other idiots think they're hiding. But at the same time I'm like, she's older and single not dead, she still has an inner life, and it might be nice to hear a bit about it.

Oh, and I also get a kick out of Noemie. She'd annoy the spit out of me in real life, I think, but she's redeemed by her broad streak of absolute crazy.