American Rust on Canal +: "Too often, fiction depicts as stupid those from the working class"

Beginning this evening on Canal +,

has a little air of déjà vu. Buell, a small town in the United States stricken by unemployment and deindustrialization, ravaged by an opioid addiction that holds residents between the ages of 18 and 77 in its clutches. The comparison with

is all the more tempting since

is set in the same state, in eastern Pennsylvania, the cradle of steel and heavy industry.

But where the HBO series, with Kate Winslet, portrayed a policewoman and hardened courageous mother, the adaptation of Philipp Meyer's great American novel embraces a less intimate scale by keeping the procession of family dramas, murders, troubled marriages and offspring having gone wrong or having decamped.

Published in 2009, Meyer's book has unfortunately not aged a bit.

The creators, Dan Futterman and Adam Rapp

, have no trouble bringing the plot to the present day and refocusing the point of view on adults.

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