The Best Version Of Myself: What Is Blanche Gardin's Series Worth?
Do you like Blanche Gardin's corrosive and sometimes trashy humor? You'll love La Meilleure version de moi-même, the series in which she plays herself in a docu-reality style. In this creation that provokes laughter as well as embarrassment, the comedian takes the path of personal development and castigates the excesses of our self-centered society.
What is it about?
The Best Version of Myself is a 9-episode series offered on Canal+ since Monday, December 6, 2021.
This series was created by Noé Debré and Blanche Gardin who plays herself in her own role, in the manner of a reality docu.
This fake documentary, which has all the appearances of a real one, pokes fun at our self-centered society and contemporary narcissism.
Blanche Gardin is the main character of this series, which also features the American comedian Louis C.K, Paul Moulin, Doully and Aymeric Lompret.
What does it say?
In The Best Version of Myself, Blanche Gardin suffers from excruciating stomach pains.
After consulting a positive-thinking naturopath who explains that the problem is caused by her self-deprecation on stage, the suffering artist decides to put an end to her career.
She makes the radical decision to abandon humor to treat herself with alternative therapies.
She then embarks on a spiritual quest, on the path of personal development and the search for self. The camera follows her in her quest for well-being and her 'wild feminine' (sic!).
Why look?
Revealed to the general public thanks to her participation in the Jamel Comedy Club in 2006, Blanche Gardin is one of the great figures of black humor in France.
In The Best Version of Myself, she uses the form of a fake documentary to question the navel-gazing of our society and the excesses of personal development.
With her screwing, cynical and sometimes disturbing tone, Blanche Gardin finely analyzes our contemporary obsession with personal development and staging oneself on social networks.
Behind the alternative therapies and personal development that are so popular today, the humorist analyzes the malaise that feeds this trend.
In the end, this new creation of Blanche Gardin is funny, but not only: the comedian pushes the satire so far that over the episodes the series takes a rather dark tone. Her character gets worse and worse, while being convinced to get better and become 'a more beautiful person'.
The main interest of this series is the impression of naturalness that comes out, because most of the scenes were not written but were improvised from the plot imagined by Blanche Gardin and Noé Debré.
This series is a UFO, but a UFO to discover, like a salutary reminder shot. This version of Blanche, lost in the meanders of neo-feminism, narcissism and naturopathic therapies, warns us not to become, in turn, a caricature of ourselves.
