Available since Friday on Prime Video, the series “Miskina, the poor” imagined by Melha Bedia won over the press, which particularly underlined its originality.
What is it about ?
Miskina is the story of Fara, 30 years old. Without an apartment, without a job, without a guy, but with strong myopia. When your grandmother, your mother and your sister are on your ribs H24, it’s time to wake up and make choices. Between her best friend who is perhaps the man of her life and this new guy a little perched who falls in love with her. Between sparing his mother still stuck on the past and reconnecting with his father. Between constantly veiling the face and finally facing the truth. When life keeps slapping you, you have to take charge and stop being a “miskina”.
Created by Melha Bedia, Yoann Gromb and Xavier Lacaille, with Melha Bedia, Shirine Boutella, Hakim Jemili
What does the press think?
According to Le Nouvel Obs
Finally, we also remember that never has a series plunged so deeply into the Maghreb psyche, proving in passing that the families, Arab, Gallic or extraterrestrial, are all the same: psychotic and in search of love.
4/5
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According to Le Parisien
Tender intergenerational fresco, quirky romantic comedy, fine reflection on identity, religion or family heritage, “Miskina” is all that at once, carried by a cast with little onions.
4/5
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According to 20 minutes
We laugh a lot in front of Miskina, the poor, but the series also gives pride of place to emotion, thanks in particular to very successful dreamlike sequences.
4/5
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According to Télé Loisirs
We were expecting a schoolboy sitcom, spiced up with punchlines by the kilometer. And indeed, rare are the replicas that do not hit the bull’s eye. But we were also surprised by the emotion that emanates from the journey of this thirty-year-old bachelor, a bit desperate.
4/5
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According to Telerama
She plays with society’s gaze on Islam, tenderly depicts intergenerational relations and even ends up making a return to the roots that is half-moving, half-messy. A trip in the image of the series, a little messy, not always hilarious but undeniably original and endearing.
3/5
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According to The World
That’s a lot of clichés, especially for eight episodes of just thirty minutes. Moreover, everything seems to have been shoehorned in to arrive at the final sequence. This one is disconcertingly easy, but it has the merit of maintaining a vague suspense on season 2. Too bad, when you see so many pretty people in the scenario.
2.5/5
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According to Les Inrocks
Often, Miskina, the poor girl touches on subjects – the relationship to the body, to sexuality, to spirituality – but drowns the fish fairly quickly in a few valves too expected to be enough to win the piece.
2/5
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