M6 is not the only channel to shop in the platform catalog (see
Easttown
yesterday).
TF1 is highlighting this beautiful and poisonous thriller from Apple TV+, released during the confinement period.
Andy (Chris Evans,
Captain America
) and Laurie Barber (Michelle Dockery,
Downton Abbey
) are pillars of their quiet, wealthy Massachusetts suburb.
He is a deputy prosecutor, she presides over an establishment for children in difficulty.
Jacob, their son, is a typical teenager.
Silent and casual, he seems lost in his thoughts and his screens.
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When a high school friend is found stabbed in a park, Andy is put in charge of the investigation.
But Jacob's fingerprints are found on the corpse.
The young boy proclaims his innocence and his parents will do everything to prevent him from being crushed by the media and legal machine in which they had faith, even if it means breaking the rules.
An intimate and impactful closed session
On this classic thriller plot,
The Jacob Barber Affair
grafts an intimate, impactful and intelligent behind closed doors.
Overnight, the Barbers become outcasts and hole up in their house under siege by journalists, subject to digital vindictiveness and the mistrust of their neighbors.
This couple who whispers “I love you” to each other before going to bed, finds themselves facing their fears, their ugliness.
And the poison of doubt is instilled.
In turn, they question their son's denials.
Their opposing beliefs, like an out-of-synch pas de deux, drive a wedge between them.
The things left unsaid, the shadows that slide across a face tell a different story than words.
Reflection on the past traumas that we hide, on the lies that we tell ourselves to live in the carefreeness of the present.
An unvarnished portrait of an upper middle class, these eight episodes film the innocuous, the thrills, the silence.
The result is a permanent feeling of unease, of heavy uncertainty.