Call My Agent!

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.

Wonderfully observed portray of agents and their actors, their actors playing themselves in a spoof way, at the same time hilarious and then vulnerable, and so real that you attach yourself to each agent. Very witty satyre of the movie business made with such affection that you fall for it. Awesome.

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.

Dix pour cent (Call my agent) is a fantastic comedy. It's well written and acted, modern and fresh but without any politically correct preaching (because it's French, the same concept made in most other western countries would have been a disaster). The characters are human, flawed and likable, their problems relatable. Like all good comedy there is an element of drama and some sad moments. This is fantastic television.

Highly recommended almost regardless of who you are, assuming you have an ounce of sophistication.

I've just binged through 2 seasons of "Call my agent" and loved it. It's really funny and surprisingly often thought provoking. They point fingers, rub it in, caricature and tease without a hint of value judgment or sentimentality. I'm likely missing some insider jokes and some bits get lost in translation but overall it's a hoot. Keep it coming!