The Night Agent is already dethroned! No one saw this French series rise to the top of the rankings

news culture The Night Agent is already dethroned! No one saw this French series rise to the top of the rankings

Adios The Night Agent is another series currently dominating Netflix SVOD platform trends that subscribers have had time to binge watch over the Easter weekend: So Far So Good , available since Friday 7 April 2023. This is the first production written and directed by actress and comedian Nawell Madani

. “A journalist’s life is thrown into chaos when she helps her brother escape the police and put her family in the crosshairs of a drug lord.” we can read on the Netflix sheet of the film. A thriller, starring Madani in the first role, that answers the young influencer Paola Locatelli, who recently starred in the teenage movie Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Djebril Zonga, the director’s wife, embodies the main antagonist. “I wanted to put the family at the center of the story and talk about strong and courageous women,” explains Nawell Madani in the 20 Minutes columns about the creation of his series.

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What are the returns?

On the critical side, it’s hard to take; on allocins, The series only gets 2.4 out of 5 starsan annotation supported by a variety of comments, such as: “A hollow series, mediocre acting full of clichés, frankly Netflix’s worst series in my opinion“, “A very amateurish acting and a scenario that is really not great, I expected much better from a Netflix production.or “The movie is full of clichés, clichés and scenes that seem more like a cheesy parody than an authentic narrative.“.

In any case, for Télérama it’s a big “no”: “Neither the thriller aspect nor the social naturalism are convincing in this suddenly too serious series by humorist Nawell Madani,” say the journalists, adding: “We like these stories in which something happens, from the extraordinary to something ordinary, but under provided that the dosage is appropriate. Nothing is believable in this case, neither this introduction nor the rest of the series, where we’ll spend our time wondering if this lack of realism hides a desire to work towards something else. But what for?

” When asked about a possible second season, Nawell Madani is definitely not closing the doors (comments collected by Télé 7 jours):

“Coming from two and a half years of work (…) I would like to see that people appreciate it, enjoy it, have a good time. If they like it and it goes well, we’ll see. (…) I was given this extraordinary opportunity to do this series with a new cast, with people who have hardly ever filmed, with a freedom of tone… I could make thrillers my own way. Let’s see if I succeed in this challenge. Then we’ll see”.