Christmas may have passed, France 2 is making a nice gift to its viewers. This Monday, January 2, the public channel is launching its new event series at 9:10 p.m. Vortexa six-episode science fiction film produced by Quad Drama (to whom we owe The fighters) and available on Salto. In the casting, Tomer Sisley – who is about to say goodbye to Balthazar, his other flagship series – is unrecognizable, and seems to have had a blast on the set. But is the result worth a look? Our opinion.
Vortex (France 2): what is the series with Tomer Sisley launched on January 2 about?
What if you had the opportunity to prevent the death of the woman in your life, murdered twenty-seven years earlier? This is precisely what Ludovic Béguin, played by Tomer Sisley, will be confronted with by the miracle of a temporal fault. Police captain in 2025, he is dispatched to a beach near Brest where a corpse has just been found. This very place where, in 1998, that of Mélanie, his wife, interpreted by Camille Claris, had been discovered. With their daughter Juliette, played by Anaïs Parello (Stella Matret in Here it all starts), this mystery-haunted cop who still hangs over the murder of his great love has since rebuilt his life by sharing that of Parvana (Zineb Triki, The office of legends) who bore him a son. Thanks to the progress of the scientific police, it has the possibility of being projected on the scene of the crime, reconstituted in virtual reality. During one of his fictional trips, a malfunction occurs and Melanie appears, alive. Ludovic Béguin went back in time…
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Vortex (France 2): what is the new series worth with Tomer Sisley, broadcast this Monday, January 2? Our opinion
On paper, the pitch of Vortexstraight out of the imagination of Franck Thilliez (the best-selling author whose book E-syndrome has been adapted into a series), one of the princes of the thriller, then reworked by two particularly inspired screenwriters, Camille Couasse and Sarah Farkas, does not really seem won over… And yet, thanks to the latest virtual reality technologies used on a large scale in the series, the plot loves you from the first minutes towards a dizzying love dilemma. Both illuminating and spectacular, Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun’s staging is entirely at the service of the story, without ever being overwhelmed by the technical prowess that is essential to its credibility. It was enough for Tomer Sisley, who has just completed the adventure Balthazar, whose final season will be broadcast on TF1 from January 19, finds a new playground to match its desires: “Even if, reading the script, it was a little scary, it was difficult to refuse”, he confides to Télé Loisirs. “But the bigger the challenge, the more it excites me!” Surrounded by a solid and homogeneous distribution, he carries the investigation with an energy and an investment which, themselves, have nothing virtual!
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