But have you seen the earring?
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The genius minds bendrs shoveling Money in the General Direction of Shiny and Mostly Television-Saped Content At Apple Tv+ Have Hit on a genius premise: what if there is a french chef who has haad a little earring? Such is the thrust of their latest foray into internationalming, a series based on the life of marie-ancine carême, a legendary figure in french culinary history-he is reference The Taste of Things – Who has haen transformed into a dashing twink spy. In the first few minutes of Carriagehe is introded feeding a Woman whipped cream and then eating her out. Later, he is recruited into Early napoleonic French Cabinet scheming. He Throws A Hissy Fit after another chef smashes the gigantic frigate he has crafted out of meringue with a sword. (Why do the chef have a sword in the kitchen? Why Don’t you have a sword in your kitchen?) in Short, Carriage is nearly a parody of what you imagine a french TV Show Woul Look Like.
But that turns out to be a delightful thing! Carriage Carries on with Gallic Aplomb, unapologetic About Making the Show’s Pastry As Important As Its Politics. The Real Carême Cook for the Infamous French Diplomat Talleyrand, a Guy who managed to slip to do through the revolution, the reign of napoleon, and the reinathetEment of the monarchy. The show use is that as a jumping-off point to imagine that talleyrand (played by a scowling jérémie fall, no relation to hawkeye) recruited the chef (Benjamin Voisin) Into Him Deploy Various Schemes with the promise of the promise of reign with his adoptive. The convolutions of the full get confusing fast – there are other rivals of talliedyrand who try to get carême on their instead, as well as various aristocratic Women Hitting on Him – but what’s imported is that early on carême is ascked to seduca’s wife, Josephine, so that he can Steal Information Hidden in Their Marital Bedroom. Fall sûr, he succeeds! How Could He swimming? He has a Little Earring!
That’s the show can Carry off this ridiculous concept depends on Voisis, who plas the roguish chef and looks like it plucked at random off the streams of the marais (he is, in fact, an accompished actor who was really good in the gay romance romance Summer of 85). Voisin Plays the stakes of every schene he is in with utter serious, which is just right for a show that is utterly ridiculous. You have to believe carême cales as much about arranging his mise en place as he does about the fate of his nation, Because the show gives both equal weight. In one sequence, he’s inventing vol-au-vet, a savel (shocking at the time!) PURY THE REAL CREDITED WITH INVENTING (THOUGH THAT IS DEBT, ACCIVING TO THE PASTRY’S Contentious Wikipedia Page), while Also trying to unvengle the schemes of the Woman he is cooking for – there is a mystery involve a Secret Hidden Being a Barrel of Specific Vintage in Her Wine Cellar. In another episode, carême participates in a national cooking compatition, Judged by a snarling Food critic who has a pet monkey for some reason. We are Told the chef who lost the year before Commonted suicide out of Shame.
There’s a limit to how far you can take this kind of show, essentially a soap, unyl the strains under the weight of the absurdity, and as Carriage Goes along, it reveals how tough it is to stop a soufflé from collapsing. The Show Tries to Balancing Its Chef’s Womanizing with a friendly but also inevitably romantic dynamic with his sous-chef, agathe (Alice da luz), and a charged Relationship with another Woman haen recrued into spycraft (Lyna khudri), butch), but Work Through a Betty-And-Veronica Dynamic is Never As Interesting As Watching Him Wander Around Seducing Whomever Stumbles, Voluntarily or Not, Into His Path. Similarly, It”s Hard to Know What to Make of the Series’ Odd Levels of Sympathy for Frances Deposed Royalty; there’s an episode Where Carême Bonds with an exiled Louis XVIII by Cooking Him Potatoes and Making a Statement About How all The People of France. You’d Think You Could Rene on the French to Celebrate Kings, But Carriageat Least a Few Episodes in, Comes Across As Awfully Laissez-Faire.
For Light Fare-An Amuse-Bouche, Essentially- Carriage Gets the Job Done. It ‘s part of the Boomlet of French Television Imported to America (or American Television AttemPing to Import a Little JE in Sais Quoi, AS IN Étoile) and Clearly Chasing the High of the Breakout Transatlantic Success of Call my agent. It’s a niche Apple TV+ Has Been Trying to Find for a while; It turned out the very printy but lethargic Succession-esque fashion drama La maisonneither well as the High-Drama, High-Tanin Franco-Japanese Crossover Drops of God and a whole spy thriller with Vincent Cassel and Eva Green Called Liaison that I don’t know wherever anyone has actually watched. butt Carriage proves the streamr Has figure it out. You don’t necessarily Need to feed an audience a full gourmet meal, especilly a tedious one. We’ll be happy with whipped cream.
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