Cult: the series on Loft Story sublimates reality (review)

The creation of “Loft” told like a fictionalized soap opera, which assumes excessive dramaturgy to better illuminate its impact on the time. Captivating like lofters in a swimming pool.

“ We will have to change the water in the pool… » The antics of Loana and Jean-Edouard are forever engraved in the history of French television. A moment Worshiplike the name of this series autopsying the very controversial arrival of “Big Brother” in France. Or how the very first reality TV was born, on M6, one evening in April 2001, with Loft Story…

Worship is not intended to tell the stories of 11 single people cut off from the world, filmed by 26 cameras and 50 microphones… The series, which arrives today on Prime Video, prefers to linger on the hive around, from purchase of the concept to the inevitable controversy over trash TV, including the casting. We are behind the scenes of production, in the offices of M6 and the mysteries of rival TF1. The small screen is about to make its revolution and Worship shows us, with an infectious frenzy, the madness of the moment, through the crazy bet of young producers ready to do anything to break through on the small screen. A crazy energy inhabits this electric and exhilarating dramatic farce from start to finish.

Less social chronicle than theatrical soap opera boosted by an NRJ soundtrack, the series of Matthew Rumani And Nicolas Slomka (former screenwriters of Family Business) plays the drama and romance card to the fullest, sometimes to the extreme, the true story of Loft. She doesn’t skimp on the totem replicas: “ We stop everything! », when the boss of M6 has remorse. “ They know there are cameras everywhere », when the ambitious producer shows her fangs.

Assuming its part of caricature, the adventure Loft Story is devoured with its shocking sentences (co-written by Marina Rollman) and his skin-deep Loana, embodied by the hypnotizing Marie Colomb (Laetitia, Follow) facing a Anaïde Rozam (LOL: who laughs comes out) amazing in imitation Alexia Laroche-Joubert who does not say her name. Yes, Worship actually crates. But as at the time of Loftwe can't help but look…

Cult, season 1 in 6 episodes to watch on Prime Vide on October 18, 2024.