Series or movies ?






First of all, I am more a “series- type-of-person” rather than a movie one. I know, I am French, I do not correspond to the stereotype. Even my high school was named after Jean Zay, a former French Ministry who also happened to have invented the famous “Festival de Cannes” in 1939. Anyway, I obviously like movies, and I can recommend you some French ones (as I have done for Mariam and Camila) if you enjoy discovering new cultures. However, I prefer the format of series, the fact that there are episodes and seasons, cliff-hangers to maintain suspense and dynamism, and also fictional characters that we can follow throughout their evolution (even if sometimes it means crying over their death).


Second of all, I do not have Netflix. As far as I can tell, it looks like it is really not as developed in France as here in Chile or Canada. Then we all have our techniques to still follow our best shows, with a bit of time difference. Nonetheless, as a real fan of series, I have a long list of more than thirty ones “to watch” in my cellphone, and I do not even know if I would have the time to begin (and most of all, to finish) them. Among the ones I am currently watching or that I have finished, there is Friends. It’s a great show to simply forget your problems and laugh (very much), with endearing characters, even if with a more mature and activist perspective there are some problematic scenes in terms of homophobic, racist, or sexist content.




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