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Jean-Pascal Zadi reprises his role as Stéphane Blé in season two of the hit political comedy series Represent. Picking up where season one left off, Stéphane has overcome the odds to become France’s first black president. But the promises of his unlikely campaign are putting him on a bumpy road in office.

Zadi is brilliant as the charming everyman Stéphane, a youth counselor from the Paris suburbs suddenly thrust onto the world stage. His sincerity and enthusiasm won over voters, yet prove tricky assets in the cutthroat arena of politics. Season two explores Stéphane grappling with the harsh realities of governance as scandals, betrayal, and fragile alliances threaten his presidency.

Around Stéphane is a colorful cast of characters, from his loyal chief of staff Yasmine to the security team keeping threats at bay. Fans will be thrilled to reunite with these figures and witness their evolving roles. New challenges also emerge,...

Toutouyoutou on MHz Choice

“Toutouyoutou” (pronounced “Two-Two-You-Two) is a comedy series set in a middle-class French suburb in the 1980s. The main women are either married or divorced. All the men work for a pioneering aeronautics company, focused on keeping up with, if not outpacing, the Americans, Russians and Brits in technological development. Everyone is getting along comfortably until a wild card is introduced. Jane (Alexia Barlier), a super attractive, outgoing Yank comes to town, introducing aerobics to the area just as it’s starting to gain popularity elsewhere. Despite her outward friendliness, suspicion starts to grow that her motives may not be as innocent as they seem. The one to have the most nagging doubts is Karine (Claire Dumas), who emerges as the main protagonist.

All the men find Jane alluring. The women want to be like her, sign up for her classes and start forming friendships.

Represent (En Place) is a series created by François Uzan and Jean-Pascal Zadi starring Jean-Pascal Zadi, Eric Judor, Benoît Poelvoorde and Fadily Camara. You can watch it on Netflix from January 20.

Represent is the new comedy that brings us to the most comical side of politics in this series which, at the very least, will make you laugh because it views politicians at their most ridiculous.

En Place is a parody with a well created script, characters and well paced, with that “French” touch that at times is so great and knows how to find that exact point of irony and elegance and at the same time, social critique.

This is a very entertaining comedy that is on Netflix and is like a very sharp dart that, under the guise of a comedy, goes straight to the heart of the “problem”, which is dealt with in an intelligent way and...

Majid (Mehdi Dahmane) and Salim (Sidi Mejai), the characters who occupy the head-spinningly raunchy center of “Sextape” — along with their girlfriends, Rim (Inas Chanti) and Yasmina (Souad Arsane), who are sisters — have the distinction of being two of the most flippantly insensitive young male dicks ever seen in the movies. They’re over-the-top, without scruples or shame; whatever happens, they don’t give a f—k. Yet the joke is that there’s nothing too remarkable about them. As the film presents it, they’re cads of their generation, bros who grew up on hardcore amateur video and the brotherhood of frat-house misogyny (a value system so widespread that it no longer requires spending time in an actual frat house), where girls are treated like fleshbot mannequins.

Half the conversation in “Sextape” is about blowjobs — how to get them, who’s going to give them — and it’s funny, for a while,...