'Detox', a 21st century addiction

Addiction: extreme fondness for someone or something (RAE).

That is exactly what

is about in its six chapters and, naturally, when the 21st century is already well under way, one of the most widespread addictions is the use and abuse of different digital devices.

You just have to look around in any cafeteria or municipal transport.

The two protagonists of the French series make a radical decision, to detoxify: 30 days without a cell phone, tablets or computer.

The ordeal begins.

And the origin of such a decision is, of course, in love, after all it is about keeping the greatest number of people in front of the screen, promoting addiction to the Netflix series created by Marie Jardillier.

Léa (Tiphaine Davot) hasn't quite accepted that her boy has left her for someone else and her disbelief is such that her ex-partner denounces her for obsessive harassment.

Manon (Manon Azem), her roommate, sympathizes with her and shares the abandonment of mobile and internet for a month.

The ordeal continues, with an addition: nobody seems to care about the sacrifice.

Suffering is joined by despair, although, yes, within limits.

Nor should it scare the staff.

In summary: a series neither fu nor fa about digital screens considered one of the bad arts with that very French point of not being unpleasant, everything within an order, without excessively

so that they do not disengage from the screen and let's all be happy, even without eating partridges.

It is enough for them to watch all the episodes of

and understand that there are less traumatic addictions than those that need a needle and without turning their guts.

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