r/tvPlus Sep 20 '24

Apple TV+’s ‘La Maison’ Finally Gives Fashion the Dramatic Showcase It Deserves: TV Review Review

https://variety.com/2024/tv/tv-reviews/la-maison-review-apple-tv-fashion-1236150976/
60 Upvotes

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u/messengers1 Sep 21 '24

La Maison feels like the soapy Dynasty that instead of having female Alexis, we have a male one as fashion designer.

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u/A1cert Oct 12 '24

I find myself enjoying this show even if it is a little messy. I don’t know if they didn’t trust themselves to center the story around fashion and the family themselves as characters. Why is there a “who’s the father??” Plot? Also the whole Gen Z savior angle is just as bad as a white savior plot.

There’s a good show somewhere in here.

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u/Justp1ayin Relics Dealer Sep 20 '24

They are just gonna insult The New Look like that? It was a great show

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Sep 21 '24

The New Look had lots of issues, and this looks like it will rectify many of them.

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u/paco_unknown Sep 20 '24

I imagine they mean that they have given fashion the prominence they promised to give it with The New Look. TNL was basically a story about the Holocaust.

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u/lightsongtheold Sep 20 '24

Did Apple ever renew The New Look or are we still awaiting news on its fate? I did really enjoy the show but it seemed to pass without much fanfare and missed in awards season.

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u/No-Designer8887 Sep 20 '24

I got the impression the story was told and the ending was the end.

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u/nanzesque Oct 18 '24

Dior died!

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u/Justp1ayin Relics Dealer Sep 20 '24

I think it’s still in limbo

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u/floridian123 Oct 16 '24

This show is fun if you liked Succession , its major plot point is a family dynasty of back stabbing billionaires, trying to stay current in a challenging fast pasted industry, fashion. You don’t get Logan Roy screaming instead the head of the family is a still beautiful Carole Bouguet who is far too elegant and French to scream, although she schemes as well as Brian Cox can. Many beautiful shots of Paris, fun fashion, keep this moving . Very much under exposed by the network genius’s running this platform.

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u/Saar13 Sep 21 '24

I loved it. It’s very much my thing and the reviews are good. Unfortunately, almost no one knows about this show. Dr. Brain, Tehran, Drops of God, Women in Blue and La Maison are very good international originals that suffer from poor marketing, even by Apple TV’s standards. Pachinko and Acapulco are in foreign languages, but they are American productions. 

I’ve been talking a lot about the importance of long-running shows becoming tentpoles and receiving a lot of marketing to attract and retain subscribers. A strong lineup in Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Hindi, maintaining at least 1 long-running show (multiple seasons) and at least 1 limited series per year will help Apple TV’s international growth. To be fair, in the next few weeks they have Midnight Family (Spanish), Where’s Wanda? (German) and Tú también lo harías (Spanish), and coming soon are Careme (French), Krank Berlin (German) and A L’ombre des Forêts (French). 

Apple has a deal with France’s popular Canal+ to offer TV+ and they just signed with a major Indian cable and phone company that will also offer TV+ and Music to millions of Indian customers. Here in Brazil they are in a new bundle from the largest communications company (Claro). Obviously Apple gets paid per user (less than the subscription alone), but it's more money in places where they weren't popular anyway. With this deal in India, Apple TV+ should play the PR game and say it has surpassed 100 million subscribers. That's about 70-80 million eligible customers for the India company.

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Sep 21 '24

Tehran is an excellent show. Just stop after season 1. The premise just drags on after that.

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u/l3tigre Oct 28 '24

drops of god was so great. i will have to look up those others. really enjoying La Maison.

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u/A1cert Oct 12 '24

It’s so close to being my thing.

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u/gattoconcello Oct 04 '24

Horrible show

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u/Cincoted Oct 18 '24

Does anyone know where the Vincent’s seaside estate is located?

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u/robfol Oct 22 '24

Yes I’d love to know more about the locations, and where is the amazing building that is the Roval headquarters?

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u/Cilicious Nov 25 '24

where is the amazing building that is the Roval headquarters?

It is actually Renault, the car company on an island in the Seine.

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u/robfol Nov 29 '24

Fantastic, thank you so much. That’s such a great story.

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u/humstu Nov 03 '24

It looks very Sardinia/Corsica to me

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u/Cilicious Nov 25 '24

Vincent’s seaside estate is located?

In Brittany. It is called Château de Costaérès

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u/Cilicious Nov 29 '24

where the Vincent’s seaside estate is located?

I replied but it was not a direct reply. Hope you can see this. The island estate is in Brittany. It is called Château de Costaérès.

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u/A1cert Oct 12 '24

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