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Série noire (2014)

Série noire poster
Directed by
Jean-François Rivard
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Length
2 seasons, 22 episodes
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two writers of a bad crime TV show go on a real crime spree to make their writing more realistic. Their scheme spirals out of control as they try to keep their careers and avoid getting caught.

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What happens

Série Noire is a Canadian French-language black comedy crime thriller television series created by François Létourneau and Jean-François Rivard which was originally broadcast on ICI Radio-Canada Télé and ICI TOU.TV in 2014–2015, and ran for 22 episodes across 2 seasons. The series centers on Denis (Létourneau) and Patrick (Vincent-Guillaume Otis), the writers of a popular but critically reviled crime drama television show, "La loi de la justice" ("The Law of Justice"), as they embark on a real life crime spree following the end of their show's first season in the hope of accumulating the personal experience necessary to make the writing more realistic in its second season. A Quebec production, every episode of the series was directed by Jean-François Rivard and written by François Létourneau and Rivard, and it starred Létourneau, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Édith Cochrane, and Marc Beaupré, with narration provided by Bernard Derome, and music by Cristobal Tapia de Veer. The series was critically acclaimed and won eleven Prix Gémeaux awards in 2014 and four in 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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