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Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Carême?
AppleTV+ dares to ask: What if a French chef had an earring?
Such is the thrust of their latest foray into international programming, a series based on the life of Marie-Antoine Carême, a legendary figure in French culinary history — he is referenced as a gastronomic god in The Taste of Things — who has been transformed into a dashing twink spy. The show uses that as a jumping-off point to imagine that Talleyrand (played by a scowling Jérémie Renier, no relation to Hawkeye) recruited the chef (Benjamin Voisin) into helping him deploy various schemes with the promise of reuniting Carême with his adoptive father. It’s a niche Apple TV+ has been trying to find for a while; it turned out the very pretty but lethargic Succession-esque fashion drama La Maison, as well as the high-drama, high-tanin Franco-Japanese crossover Drops of God and a whole spy thriller with Vincent Cassel and Eva Green called Liaison that I don’t know whether anyone has actually watched.
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