Is it impossible to go 30 days without a phone mission? However, this is the challenge that the heroines of the series set themselves. detox, available on Netflix from September 1. Created and directed by producer Marie Jardillier, this six-episode comedy features two cousins and 30-year-old roommates, Léa (Tiphaine Daviot) and Manon (Manon Azem), who come to realize the toxicity of their relationship with the Internet. .
Léa can’t get away from her ex, whom she follows on all social networks and stalks to his workplace. Manon for her part, is the victim of a bad stir on the web, while she dreams of breaking into song thanks to Instagram and TikTok.
“Everyone will recognize themselves in him”
The two young women find that they spend more than a month and a half year with their phone and therefore decide to make a radical decision: abandon all technology for 30 days.
With humor, the series delivers a real message about the dangers of screens and social media, and reminds us how much we can no longer live without our smartphones.
But for the two heroines, now forced to “date like in the ’90s,” this digital detox cure isn’t easy.
To achieve their goal, Léa and Manon participate, for example, in an intensive training, as a survival course, supervised by a Cécile Cassel who looks like an angry Lara Croft, along with other “addicts” to social networks, a youtuber of 10 years. old man, a “professional tester” who spends his time awarding stars to anything and everything.
“Anyway, these addictions have a bit of a pathetic side, so it’s not that hard to make fun of them. I think everyone will recognize themselves in them quite easily, ”says Tiphaine Daviot, who plays Léa in the series, at the microphone of BFMTV.
How not to identify, effectively, with Manon, forced to leave the subway due to a breakdown, completely lost, without her smartphone, in the streets of Paris, and who ends her trip in a rickshaw.
At the moment, Netflix has not announced a second season for this series. But detox It is already in the French top 10 of the most watched series on the platform. On the casting side, in addition to Tiphaine Daviot and Manon Azem, we find in particular Charlotte de Turckheim and Zinedine Soualem, but also Helena Noguerra and Oussama Kheddam.
Source: BFM TV
