Deutsch-Les-Landes: What's worth the first French series of Amazon in the vein of Camping Paradise? – News Series on TV

Jiscalosse, a village in the Landes, is on the brink of bankruptcy. To save the furniture, Mayor Martine decided to sell a whole part of the town to Gerhard Jäger, the eccentric Bavarian CEO of a car design company, who fell in love with the Landes. He decided to relocate an entire department and its employees in the south of France. This mbadive arrival triggers a crop shock, opening the way to some funny situations.

Available on Amazon Prime Video from November 30th. 10 episodes of 26 minutes.

The cast is worn by our national Marie-Anne Chazel, no longer present and here embodies the mayor of the village of Jiscalosse. She has become a recurring face of the small screen, with participations in the Mystery of the Lake and its suite, or Les Edelweiss. With her, on the French side, we find Sophie Mounicot, one of the emblematic actresses of H, who plays her sister, particularly unpleasant with his entourage; the latter has a daughter played by the young Roxane Duran, seen in The Aries Family and The Witnesses seasons 1 and 2, as well as a husband incarnated by Philippe Lelièvre, former theater teacher of the star Academy, actor in The Trainee. Sylvie Testud is also part of the adventure in the role of a German teacher, who will compromise with the enemy by falling in love with a German played by Christoph Maria Herbst, well known in his country especially for having embodied the character Stromberg, in the series of the same name, unpublished at home.

The first French series of the American platform Amazon Prime Video, now deployed around the world, is about what we do the worst and for far too long in France. Deutsch-Les-Landes is old TF1, under Camping Paradise – that is to say! – which has absolutely no place on such a platform, which is expected to take risks and especially that it 's address to another audience, younger, that big chains tend to give up. While the platform produces Transparent in the United States or Beat in Germany, how can it offer us a spectacle as old and embarrbading? After Marseille on Netflix, we wonder what we did to God streaming to inflict such a test!

By speaking to Telfrance, local producers who certainly have a real know-how in popular hits – Plus Belle La Vie, Sister-Thérèse.com or Louis la Brocante, it's them – but who does not have never shone by the audacity, modernity and aesthetics of their fiction, Amazon has not been avant-garde, it is the least we can say. Deutsch-Les-Landes, from his uninviting pitch to his lazy staging, even frightful when it comes to making flashbacks visually worthy of First Kisses, takes pleasure in the basic "French comedy", which connects the clichés on the Germans and the French – the German is obviously naturist, control freakthe Frenchman is lazy and always on strike – without ever trying to overtake them. Scenario side, we find the authors of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis and RTT. It's nice, it's ultimately very benevolent obviously, and it only rarely laughs, so replicas of another age are worn out.

On the side of the actors, there is good, and good at least. Marie-Anne Chazel is Marie-Anne Chazel, but we have known more fit; Roxane Duran could have been a beautiful revelation, if we gave her something to play worth, and Sylvie Testud seems to have fun like crazy, while we spend her time wondering what she went to do in this galley, besides the fact that she was certainly one of the rare French actresses known to speak fluent German! And then there is a French dubbing for the German characters absolutely catastrophic, adding a little more ridicule to already ugly situations. The saddest thing in all of this? For once, a beautiful part was given to female characters of different ages. But the lack of subtlety in writing makes them neither particularly interesting nor endearing. And male characters, often benets, for many relegated to the background, have very little to defend. There is also a total lack of diversity, which contributes to this feeling of looking at an old-fashioned series.

After having chained not without difficulty the 10 episodes that make up this first season of Deutsch-Les-Landes, one thing is clear: in "hate watching" mode, she looks at herself. It is a waste of time, certainly, and it is doubtful that its presence in the catalog of the platform motivates subscriptions – which is still the main objective – but there is certainly an audience for it … on the great historical chains! It is hoped that Amazon's upcoming local series will be more innovative and will match another audience, claiming series that resemble them.