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- Titolo Originale: スキャンダルイブ
- Conosciuto Anche Come: Sukyandaru Ibu
- Regista: Kanai Hiro
- Sceneggiatore: Kie Yasushi
- Generi: Thriller, Mistero, Affari
Cast & Ringraziamenti
- Shibasaki KouIoka SakiRuolo Principale
- Kawaguchi HarunaHirata KanadeRuolo Principale
- Suzuki HonamiKodama YokoRuolo di Supporto
- Yokoyama YuAkashi TakayukiRuolo di Supporto
- Yanagi ShuntaroNinomiya RyoRuolo di Supporto
- Yusuke SantamariaHashimoto SeigoRuolo di Supporto
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machinery and the mob
9 / 10Most dramas are made to help us escape for a bit. This one doesn’t let you do that. It doesn’t try to be clever or self-important. It just confronts you. It pulls a system we’re not supposed to see into the open and holds it there. What makes it uncomfortable is that it doesn’t stop at the industry. It makes room for the audience too, for the way attention, demand, and silence keep the whole thing running. This isn’t really entertainment. It’s a reckoning with an industry that only works because people stay quiet and pretend not to know.
The scandal at its core is not rumor or professional misconduct. It is the systematic suppression of rape and sexual assault. We see multiple victims erased through coordinated falsehoods. Of cousre, who knows how many victim stories never make it to the light. We see media manipulation and suppression deployed as a weapon. A culture so practiced in self-preservation that it pushes victims toward isolation, despair, and suicide. The series does not treat this as some sort provocation... it treats it as evidence that the whole thing needs a reboot or to be torn down.
Haruna's (oh how I love Haruna in everything she is in)character is personally implicated and ideologically committed. Her sister is also a victim, and that wound never closes. But she is not driven by solely by revenge. She is driven by belief. She believes truth matters. She believes journalism has an obligation beyond access, profit, and survival. That conviction is what makes her dangerous in a system designed to bury facts rather than surface them.
At first I was a little conflicted by the sister connection, but I think the writers did a good job of introducing it (I am just very wary of any previous connection trope.... but at least this one isn't that someone in the show crossed paths with someone 47 years ago and now everything is magically connected.)
The scenes with her and Ko hit me harder than anything else in the show. This isn’t some moral showdown. It’s two women who understand exactly how much power a narrative can hold and who gets to tell it. They know what silence protects and what truth can destroy, and neither of them looks away. Watching it, I kept holding my breath. Every word and every move matters. It’s tense, it’s exhausting, and it feels completely real.
What makes the drama so damning is that it doesn’t stop with the easy villains. It doesn’t let us blame just the agencies or point fingers at the media and feel clean about it. Yes, they’re guilty. But the show names the last accomplice too, and it’s the audiencee. Abuse keeps happening because attention keeps paying for it. Lies survive because they sell. People want the spectacle, then punish anyone who threatens to ruin it. So everyone quietly agrees to look away as long as the product stays untouched. Watching isn’t neutral. Consumption is participation. Every view, every click, every excuse keeps the machine alive. We are not standing outside of this.
The series really only slips once for me. The Editor-in-Chief, Kenjiro Goda, changes sides a little too smoothly. In a story where telling the truth always comes at a cost, that turn felt a bit rushed. There are a couple of other moments like that too. I get that with only six episodes there was never going to be time to sit with every character, and I don’t think the show is being lazy. I just kept feeling like a few of those shifts needed another scene, another beat, something to make the change feel heavier. When everything else in the show makes growth feel painful, the easier turns stand out.
For me, the ending doesn’t retreat into cynicism. It refuses the easy lie that nothing ever changes. The truth is dragged into the open, publicly and in a way that can’t be taken back. What happens in the final press conference isn’t abstract or symbolic. It closes the loop that was opened in the first episode, and what’s said there felt exactly right to me. Nothing padded. Nothing softened. I didn’t need to see every villain punished on screen to feel the weight of it. Their downfalls are clearly set in motion, and that’s enough.
The fact that everything isn’t wrapped up neatly didn’t feel like a flaw. It felt honest. This story was never about comfort or clean closure. It was about what happens after the truth is finally spoken, and how impossible it is to pretend nothing happened.
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Dix pour cent, tous pourris
Après avoir réalisé Radiation House ou Good Doctor il y a quelques années, il semblerait que Kanai Hiro se spécialise désormais dans les kisha drama. Ces séries où un journaliste revanchard, en quête de vérité dans un monde gangrené par l’argent et le pouvoir, est le seul à pouvoir, et vouloir, la faire surgir.Mais l’obsession qu’ont les médias à se regarder le nombril commence franchement à me fatiguer. Et celle de vouloir nous faire croire qu’ils sont en pleine remise en question risque surtout de nous faire fuir. Oshi no Ko, Love on Trial ou l’excellent Oshi no Satsujin, pour ne citer que les plus récents, ont déjà dénoncé avec plus ou moins de finesse les dérives des mass médias et du showbiz japonais, en ayant, je pense, tout dit. Sans compter que ce constat avait déjà été mis en exergue dans Perfect Blue en 1997, lui-même adaptation d’un roman sur le monde des idoles sorti en 1991. Alors, 35 ans après un des premiers mea culpa de la profession, Scandal Eve a-t-il vraiment quelque chose de plus à nous montrer, ou sommes-nous totalement anesthésiés par cette déferlante de fausses remises en question ?
Le showbiz va mal, le spectateur consommateur ne s’intéresse qu’aux scandales. Alors, avec son cynisme habituel, la bête réalise un nième brûlot faisant semblant de dénoncer ce qu’elle contribue à alimenter. La bête se nourrit d’elle-même, sorte d’inceste sans fin. Et après avoir vu les six épisodes, je reste dubitatif, surtout si l’on s’attarde sur les quinze longues dernières minutes d’autosatisfaction qui concluent la série.
Pourtant, elle possède des qualités. Déjà, le format en six épisodes permet de ne pas s’étaler, et la série se concentre sur un nombre limité de personnages, joués avec maîtrise. Dommage que les « méchants » soient un peu trop caricaturaux dans leurs regards inquiétants, leurs grimaces ou leurs postures. Des yakuzas aux hommes de main, des patrons jusqu’à la grande antagoniste, identifiable dès les premières minutes. Mais rien n’est définitif. Les personnalités se dévoilent progressivement, et plusieurs rebondissements relanceront l’intérêt de la série. Sans temps mort, on suit l’enquête du point de vue des deux personnages principaux.
D’abord Kawaguchi Haruna, en journaliste à deux facettes, semblant chercher le scandale mais dont le but est tout autre. Et Shibasaki Kou, parfaite en agente d’acteurs, donnant tout son temps, et sa santé, à ses "talents", qui ne le méritent pas forcément. Un mélange entre Dix pour cent et Caster, également réalisés par Kanai Hiro.
On sent bien, dans la plupart de ses dramas, son obsession pour la quête de vérité journalistique mais aussi pour les dérives des mass médias. Ici, la série se penche sur le point de vue de l’agence et, en particulier, de l’agente, ce qui renouvelle légèrement le genre et apporte une fraîcheur bienvenue. Dommage, justement, que la multiplication des intervenants finisse par ne plus laisser suffisamment de place au développement de son personnage. À l’inverse, c’est Kawaguchi Haruna qui prend progressivement de l’importance, ramenant la série vers les classiques kisha manga.
Une série qui résume en six épisodes l’ensemble des productions du genre de ces trente dernières années, réalisée de main de maître. Elle permettra aux non-initiés de rattraper leur retard dans un univers passionnant, mais terriblement prévisible, tout en passant un bon moment.
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