Does Anyone Watch "Call My Agent"? (Netflix)

It's on my watchlist!.I've been hearing for a while how good it is.I'm halfway through another really good French series
called Lupin.It's fantastic so far and definitely worth watching.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/when-work-becomes-life-in-call-my-agent-and-the-bureau

Just saw this in the New Yorker which makes the cameos sound hilarious - the Huppert joke is amazing, and Sigourney gets a dance number !!? Might have to check this out soon!

Just in the first three eps, this show pulls off a depth that takes other comedies seasons to realize. And it's no wonder why so many big names agreed to "cameo" (they're more than that).... they situate them hilariously and meaningfully into the eps. This works on many levels - it's a clever office comedy as well as being about the pressure points of actors/artists - rivalries and facades and aging and ego. Not so different from, of course, their agents. Can't wait to continue.

Netflix can't be overrated with how much they offer - a French show? horror? both (Marianne) !?

Call My Agent gets even better?? 

Going in, I thought the eps were only 30m! but I'm glad that's not the case, it really gives room to the characters and especially the guest stars (impatiently awaiting Huppert). 

S2, e4 -RE-watch

This is one of the greatest TV episodes ever - a hilarious Isabelle Adjani with 2 funny Game of Thrones jokes and a shitload of hilarious WAY over the line sexual jokes about brother-sister incest (not kidding, you have to see it to get it), lesbians and straight males ("I made you come 3 times, quickly too ......oh I love it, you talk like a man......that's your gay side" ), an attempt to squash sexual chemistry between a man, his girlfriend and another man ("You'd rather she played a cripple for the Dardennes?" )........a sexy massage etc.......visual homoerotic humor........the commitment of a father to a daughter and a betrayal of everyone else and the separation of a director from his favorite actress which is kind of sexual/familial too......and I'm not even getting to the Depardieu jokes.

This is where this show went batshit crazy in the most wonderful and unexpected ways.......

The one we've all been waiting for - Huppert's ep, of course - did not let down! "She has the stamina of a Nepalese Sherpa!"

Not only shooting two movies at the exact same time, she makes time for pit stops and all the while preparing to play Hamlet ( Hamlet! ). It's a hilarious and perfectly constructed satire of her. So many piled on surprises this ep and her perf is marvelous.

Something I forgot to mention with Huppert and with pretty much all the guest stars and the entire cast.... besides how funny and scathing the show is, it's also a very loving one. It amazes me how between the agents who are virulently workminded and often double-dealing, and the dunked on celebrity behavior, their insecurities and wild egos, the show never feels like it's nosing down on them and doesn't play cute either.

S3 finale case in point - the plot says something is broken, but the character realizations are really very touching - so what might've been a downer, isn't. Particularly bc of how well it was building the Mathias/Noémie relationship this whole time. Side bar - Laure Calamy as Noémie is sort of the 7th inning heart of the show - at 45y/o she seems younger, girlish, passionate, too passionate, endearingly dopey, but she's also at times very badass and sharp-minded and always funny.

S4 with Franck Dubosc ("This could be your Tchao Pantin" his agent says) and my latest seen episode, José Garcia - these aren't even satires, they are older actors contending with the past for a present place. (The show is most brilliant in its look at aging in the business imo.) Garcia's ep is sweet - "Do what you have to do. I want him un-hiccuped."  - and even better if you've seen Après Vous (2003).

Oh honeys, I've just finished Season 2 with the Juliette Brioche episode. For me, it was the best episode so far, especially liked how while everyone was at the Cannes party she was in her suite eating Pizza with the Chopard minder and their interplay about her movies.

I'm starting Season 3 with Jean Dujardin!!!!




You were right about how this show just keeps getting better and better. I think I'll die without it.

I miss it already and I only just finished. Idk who wouldn't like this show especially us movie-mad. Great characters, great developments, very funny, very touching. Y'know the show is magic - I teared up right during the very last shot, for those who've seen it you know what I mean....it's a beautiful touch.

Oh and that Sigourney dance number delivered.

Rewatched the last 2 episodes ....I don't even watch TV that much and I really think it's, for me, like Fawlty Towers level great or Garth Marenghi's "Darkplace" for my favorite TV-ish things.......and I really love Camille Cottin madly on re-watches - your 2021 BSA Oscar winner (for House of Gucci, calling it a year in advance dammit!).

I love also how many little jokes are unexplained like weird stuff like Sigourney Weaver saying "I have to go change" and she comes back in all power red