Dix pour cent

I stumbled on this show & couidnt stop watching it. Great character development & storylines. Looking forward to season 3. Highly recommend!

Call My Agent is fresh, funny and so well done! It's pleasure to watch. From the behind the scenes aspect of a theatrical agency to the human interactions that can get twisted it's - to borrow a book phrase - a "page turner." Fresh perspectives, lies and blistering truths all wrapped up in a comedic bow, but a sophisticated, intelligent bow. Just such fun to watch. I can't wait for more episodes.

Behind the great cast, storylines, wonderful guest stars, excellent soundtrack music and lotsa fun, there is a great deal of cleverness. Unlike American shows it is not wearing a PC corset.

Strong characters, good jokes, plenty of drama, glamour and de l'amour. Starts to grind its gears in season 4. First three seasons get a nine. Keeps the ninth star for Jean-Gabin the dog.

Did you watch the later Mad Men seasons? A lot of frantic office and bed-hopping, people setting up rival agencies, crisis after crisis thrown at mainly well-defined characters. Dix Pour Cent (CMA) is sort of Mad Men: The Next Generation with much better jokes, less death, and well normalised LGBTness, (though race less addressed). The matriarch Arlette might well have been one of Don or Roger's party girls back in the day.

Call My Agent (set in the present!) has a much more romantic French side, complete with baroque soundtrack, great views of Paris inside and out, and let's not forget the stunt casting of every French film star you didn't know was still working, playing themselves. A clever device, only possible in a drama about high-end movie agents. Times have changed - in Sunset Boulevard Norma Desmond was washed up at 44(!)

I'm on S04E03 and enjoying it more for the humour and 'where will they take this-ness' than any suspense I feel for the characters. The inter-agency rivalry gets pretty one-dimensional, and relationship break-ups over and over can seem pretty forced. Glam-soap by the finale, I expect, but that's Netflix.

I can see why they introduced Hicham as the psychopath venture capitalist -there wasn't quite enough darkness in series 1. But then they went and gave him a heart, too. I don't know if it's the awful man bun, his slim physique or his acting; I just don't believe the character.

An image search for Fanny Herrero will reveal that the casting of Camille Cottin as the pivotal Andrea character is very likely self-referential.

It is impossible not to like this show. It is a comedy with the brilliant idea of actors playing their own role. The acting is great and the screenplay is excellent. I have not seen Season 2 yet, but Season 1 is definitely worth watching. I hope that the French sense of humor translates well in other languages. I would bet that a US adaptation is on its way (because this is what happens, they pick ideas from others). So "très charmant", my dear.