After the success of Family Business Already on Netflix, Igor Gotesman signs his return for the American platform with the mini-series Fiasco, co-created with Pierre Niney. A predestined name? Half-tone answer to read below...
Director in distress
Raphael (Pierre Niney) sees her dream come true: her very first film – a biopic about her grandmother's turbulent life – is about to come out. Problem, cracks accumulate: his first male role (Vincent Cassel) puts sticks in his wheels, a stunter gets seriously injured during the first few days of shooting and, worse, a raven tries to blackmail them with a video of Raphael's trafiquée holding out some inappropriate comments about his main actress (Leslie Medina). There's enough to put lead in the wing of his project that he had just touched his finger...
Mini-series comic after a Family Business questionable but convincing enough to train its spectator through his three seasons, Fiasco in a context of Me too French as a hair on the soup: his story of a director a little too nice who gets disassembled by the media because of a video mounted in a false way to make him look like a misogynist has enough to make teeth gnashing... We've had better timing to base his whole intrigue on this kind of rather counter-current and frankly clumsy theme. But if this choice questions, it is not that it is necessary to nail the work to the piloris. Let's see what Fiasco in the belly...
Reference series
Needless to say Fiasco surf on the wave of French comic series with absurd tendencies, bottled with references (The None have passed there) and have a XXL casting. We had The Flame and The Flame for Canal+, LOL: who laughs, comes out for Amazon Prime and now Fiasco in the Netflix stable. If between them these different titles are stinged the heads of posters (Pierre Niney, François Civil, Géraldine Nakache, Louise Coldefy...), it's as much to reveal real comic pearls that we had not seen enough in this register as to point the finger at the monochrome humour of a whole bunch of other actors well in trouble to renew themselves... Pierre Niney was in the first category, at least until Fiasco.
The references here are clear. If we take over the poster heads of the pre-cited series, we're going to have to deal with a filming at the The Office : camera in the fist, the mini-series aims to consist of the rushes that would have been captured by a team responsible for carrying out the making-off Raphael's film. The difference is that unlike the great series of Ricky Gervais (just as brilliantly transposed to the US with Steve Carell, it is rare enough to be mentioned), Fiasco he attaches to a clear plot that will be scaffolded from episode to episode, following to the letter the codes of the screenplay order.
A first big ball in the foot for the projectIgor Gotesman, which thus deprives itself of all the tentacular madness that could benefit The Office, The Flame or The Flame to cite only examples already mentioned (and of already very disparate quality). Paste to a precise script frame will require Fiasco Undoubtedly going through the same proven boxes (the often well-artificial creation of tension, the gogo cliffhangers, the double-ball bounces...) that deprives him of much of his freedom of movement and, at the same time, of a sacred slice of his comic potential. Anyway, Fiasco, to stick too much to serial standards, eventually becoming perfectly indigestible...
Fiasco, the good name?
If it was refreshing to see all these heads of the new French comedy mixed with older breakers, the recipe o how much income starts to blow. Locked in his screenplay, the comic mini-series will struggle to make us let go of a puff from time to time. And unfortunately, neither his casting (Pierre Niney absolutely monochrome, Coldefy who still plows his same comic vein, Pascal Demolon or his scenario will not be able to raise the bar of production Netflix Definitely very unconvincing. Only real pleasure taken in front Fiasco, discover behind the scenes of a fashionable filming set The Office... And that's probably where the real comic series was hiding, rid of that expected and boring screenplay appearance.
I think you're tough on it. I really liked it for me, even though the show is far from perfect she frankly made me laugh with a few lines and passages that fly, which is the main one. 🙂 Anyway on MaG you're just haters and blasé 😀 Thanks for the review 😉
It is clear that it may not be true that I expected too much, but was rather convinced by *Family Business* (in any case the beginning) and being quite fond of this kind of humor, I was quite disappointed. After I saw in parallel with The US Office that I discovered these days, and Fiasco potentially suffered a lot from the parallel 😉