There was a write up about the new series in one of the newspapers I read (I will not shame this otherwise fine publication by naming it) and their review was positive, so it piqued my curiosity.
I watched the first 20 minutes of the first episode of the new series. It is incredibly self-indulgent, and weak. I have had some personal/family experiences with members of this particular Parisian circle. French actors/celebrities behave in ways that are so much more entitled -like monarchy and nobility (as a social class, not a personal quality) had never been abolished.
This is not satire, it's a PR job. And it's not funny. If the only claim to fame for the series is that "famous" people will agree to cameo in it, not always acting well, by the way, that's a very thin case for success. There is so little bite in the script and dialogue, that one wonders where the irony and satire have gone? (perhaps Armando Iannucci stole it all?)
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