Il y a des séries qui ne se contentent pas de distraire. Elles grattent, questionnent, obsèdent. Elles installent des climats, font naître des vertiges, révèlent des fêlures. Dans cette sélection “Acumen”, nous avons réuni cinq œuvres à la tension magnétique, qui placent leurs personnages face à des moments charnières.
Black Butterfly
A writer in need of inspiration welcomes a stranger into his home to write his story. But what he thought was a simple narration becomes a mental spiral. Papillon Noir follows in the French tradition of the closed-door thriller, where every glance can become a threat, and every silence a revelation. The Niels Arestrup / Nicolas Duvauchelle duet delivers a chilling, captivating battle in hushed tones.
My Little Reindeer
Inspired by the real-life experience of its creator Richard Gadd, this British mini-series traces the slow drift of an actor harassed by a woman who interferes in his life, his flaws and his secrets. Through this visceral autofiction, Mon Petit Renne explores the troubling boundary between empathy and manipulation, between victimization and responsibility. Rarely has the screen been so intimate, and so disturbing, in its approach to trauma.
Monsters
Behind the figure of the ultra-mediatized serial killer, Ryan Murphy delivers a chilling portrait of urban America in the 1980s, plagued by systemic racism, homophobia and police indifference. Buoyed byEvan Peters' masterful performance, Monstres is uncomfortable not so much because of its crimes, but because of what they reveal: a society that has let it happen. A scalpel-sharp social thriller.
Love & Death
In Texas in the '80s, a straight-laced woman kills her friend with an axe. Was it an accident? Self-defense? A crime of passion? Elizabeth Olsen plays the deeply moving Candy Montgomery, between domestic banality and subdued rage. With surgical slowness, Love & Death dissects the moral hypocrisy of an America caught between the Bible Belt and buried desires. Violence erupts like a cry that has been suppressed for years.
Sharp Objects
Adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel, this magnetic series follows broken journalist Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) as she returns to her hometown to cover the murders of teenage girls. But the investigation becomes above all a return to oneself, an inner collapse. Between hallucinations, invisible scars and family ghosts, Sharp Objects is a dark poem where pain can be read in every shot, every silence.
An atmospheric masterpiece about traumas that seep through walls.
Series like states of mind
What the five works in this selection have in common is that they speak of buried truths, intimate fractures, moments of rupture when nothing will ever be the same again. They show tired bodies, haunted minds, faces we thought we knew.
These are series to be watched slowly, to be felt rather than consumed.Introspective series, where fiction becomes a disturbing mirror.
Series of moments, as Acumen likes to tell them.
