Fever on Canal+: How much is the new political mini-series from the creator of Baron Noir worth?

What is it about?

At the end of the season, everyone is dressed to the nines, as every year, that evening, which rewards the best of French football.

Only this year, the ceremony turned into a scandal: one of the stars of the championship and the starter of the French national team, Fode Thiam, hit the head of the coach in front of the cameras and called him “a dirty tubab”. “Tubabi” means “white” in Wolof.

The media immediately covered the controversy. Invited to the club’s bedside, in the middle of a media storm, Sam Berger, a gifted communicator but haunted by his hypersensitivity, doubts that this time a new, more “selling” scandal will be enough to avert the crisis.

And for good reason: right in front of her, from the stage of the theater where she regularly performs to sold-out audiences, Marie Kinski uses controversy to inflame the identity and social divisions that are tearing the country apart.

Two women, once very close, are both convinced: behind the fate of a great football player, the fate of the whole of France, incubated in a serious fever, will be at stake.

who is he with

Behind Sam Berger and Marie Kinski are two actresses who already enjoy some notoriety thanks to the small screen, namely Nina Meurice (Mixed, Little Mama, Black Hearts) and Anna Girardot (Ghosts, Ally, Baby).

Alongside them, Alassane Diong (Tirailleurs) plays football player Fode Thiam, Assa Sylla (Bande de Fille, Scam France, Guest from the Future) his wife and Benjamin Beaulais (Stella, Eddy) the club president.

Finally, a note: Xavier Robik (Criminal Tropics, The Promise, Lupine) plays Tristan, the head of the company Sam works for, and Gustave Kervern (Groland, also Panda) plays his shrinking employee.

Is it worth checking out?

“I’m not an oracle, I’m not planning anything, I’m just trying to understand the reality, the spirit of the times, tomorrow may be what I mentioned, but what I show already exists in one way or another. “assured Eric Benzekri, series creator and co-writer, at a press conference last February, in response to director Ziad Dwyer, who felt that “Fever knows what’s going on so well that it predicts what’s going to happen”, “Like Baron Noir”Previous series by Eric Benzekre.

So, did the latter once again show, after the Black Baron, a remarkable insight into our times, or was he simply able to imagine and write a terribly credible story? Anyway, in recent episodes, how can we not draw parallels between the disturbing project championed by Marie Kinski and the recent leap backwards in the United States’ abortion situation, a situation that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. And yet the reality today?

so many action Acts subtly when especially choosing to explain pedagogy in terms of manipulating public opinion thanks to crisis communication mechanisms or social networks. Therefore, the “Overton window” is a concept that we are not ready to forget in order to better understand certain political statements in the future.

In addition to the sophistication of the writing and the pedagogy that the series displays, Nina Meurice and Anna Girardo also perfectly embody the two states of that moment: one anxious, sometimes pessimistic, sometimes optimistic about the future, sometimes lost. , but often fighting; The second is seductive, cynical and opportunistic, even if it means taking advantage of the reactionary temptations of the moment. Perhaps aided by this recurring public desire to play the scared, Anna Girardo bursts onto the screen in the series.

If black baron and action They are, a priori, unrelated, except that they are two consecutive political series written by Eric Benzekre, both of which end up complementing each other quite well. Indeed, both paint a political and critical portrait of French society today, showing that everything is political and that the French people remain a “political people”. While the former manifests it strictly in political and institutional circles, the latter is closer to the idea of ​​the “cultural battle” that is currently taking place in our country and is therefore part of the media, intellectual and sports world. All that remains is the presentation of a third series around civil society and abstentionists (often described as “France’s First Party”) to complete the triptych that is taking shape. black baron and action ?

Fever is a French mini-series that you can discover every Monday from March 18 at 9pm on Canal+. Two new episodes will air for launch night, followed by a new episode every Monday.