Homejacking: a mystery thriller raises the tension at Séries Mania
A hooded guy violently breaks into the home of a bourgeois couple. But is he really there to steal them? A mini-series in French competition at Séries Mania.
In a superb architect-designed house in the middle of the forest, a bourgeois couple is the victim of a brutal intrusion. Without saying a word or almost, an individual wearing a pink hood and a handgun breaks into their home and kidnaps them. Isabelle (Marie Dompnier) and Richard Deloye (Yannick Choira) don't understand what he wants: after tying them up, the violent man sits at the kitchen counter and makes himself a bowl of cereal… But who is this kind ? Will he steal them? Kill them ? Or is it there for a completely different reason?
Created by Florent Meyer and Tigrane Rosine (who notably worked on Lupine), Homejacking begins very strongly with a tense first episode: blows rain and blood spurts in this barrack as luxurious as it is sanitized. Hervé Hadmar's camera (Pigalle, Night, Beyond the Walls…) cultivates suspense and strangeness in the midst of this – a priori – gratuitous violence. Things become a little clear from episode 2, where we meet a brother and sister in their twenties (Sofia Lesaffre and Carl Malapa), whose dying mother speaks to them about 'an isolated house… Less mysterious (although), this part of the scenario has the merit of bringing humanity to the affair.
We will not say more to preserve the intrigue of this OCS mini-series which fully embraces its station novel side, with different points of view on the same scene and cascading twists and turns. This is both its great strength (we irresistibly want to continue with the next episode) and its weakness (too many twists sometimes kills the twist). It remains to Homejacking three episodes to manage to get back on its feet.
Homejacking will be broadcast on OCS from April 7.
