This show creeped me out.
It's another from the "Times" best foreign series list.
It's not a huge commitment, only four episodes of just under an hour, but...
It pains me to see delusional people screwing up their lives. Oftentimes their hearts are in the right place, but rather than admit things are not working out they lie/stretch the truth and the reality is most people do not expect this.
So Chris is...
Someone who is too old to be living the rock and roll dream, or wannabe dream. She washed out as a manager, she dresses like an icon, lives on the story of her chance meeting with Iggy Pop and is ultimately delusional.
Unfortunately, I know people like this. Ones everybody loves and when the truth is finally revealed they're disappointed in them and want nothing to do with them.
I know, I know, you're not like this. But the amazing thing is there are people like this in the community. You give people the benefit of the doubt, but then you regret it.
So this is a story inspired by the Bataclan terrorist attack, but it's not true.
Chris, who was not in the venue, becomes infatuated with the survivors and inserts herself into their lives and...
It was oftentimes too painful for me to watch. Because Chris means well, but that's not enough. You're just waiting for her to be found out.
And once you start lying, you have to continue to do this to sustain the enterprise.
But Chris is so likable, so charitable, your best caring friend! She works so hard.
But...
This is a French series, the default is dubbed in English, you'll have to go into the settings for the original French and subtitles in English, assuming you don't know French.
And maybe it's because I don't know the actors, but everybody rang true in their roles. You really believed they were who they were, you didn't see them acting.
And yes, you learn about the fallout of a terrorist attack like Bataclan, how people cope and how they don't, how they come together and how they don't.
Some people in life are suspicious and some ride with the story.
My father was always suspicious. He was looking for the holes in stories, things that don't add up.
And I'm my father's son.
I know, I know there are accepting people who end up having all these opportunities I do not. Then again, some of them get into really bad situations, with drugs, being ripped-off.
Maybe you just can't change who you are. I'm just a middle class suburbanite.
And Chris appears so together, so compassionate, so nice...
I ultimately found the ending of the series a bit of a letdown. Not in terms of what happens, but how Chris is ultimately dealt with. I guess I expected some big confrontation.
Then again, thinking about it now... Leon the leader knows something is up and plays dumb while the authorities do their work and when Chris finally realizes the jig is up she acts appropriately it's just that...
You're watching this show, wondering when Chris will be found out. You learn pretty early she's off her rocker, you know it's just a matter of time, but time keeps going on with no reveal, no consequences, and this is what I found hard to endure, I felt so bad for Chris, then again...she was taking liberties.
There are all kinds of people in this world. And that's what makes up this world, the people. You never know what you'll get, isn't life like a box of chocolates?
But "Forrest Gump" had a different vibe. "The Confidante" is just like real life, you don't see Tom Hanks playing a role, the story is not overwhelmed by stars.
And I wasn't even going to write about "The Confidante," but I was just telling someone about it and I got excited, because of the feelings the show engendered in me and...
Here you go.
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