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The Trigger (La Fièvre): what age is it for? 13 alone, 12 with a parent
13 alone, 12 with a parent.
Series · 2024 · 1 season · 6 episodes · drama, mystery
Another one for age 13Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en famille Alone, or with you
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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone
Alone from 13; from 12, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.
In France, zinema would say 13.
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What it's about
The stars of French football are celebrating the end of the season with a high-profile party full of glitz and glamour. But a scandal erupts when star player Fodé Thiam violently headbutts his coach and uses a racist slur against him, inciting angry demands to exclude Fodé from the team. The club hires Sam, a brilliant but emotionally unstable PR fixer, to diffuse the crisis and save the team's future.
Why 13
Our readingNot rated in the US. We say 13: The violence of ideas more than images: the racial slur on a loop, the far-right influencer, the school-shooting survivor listing her classmates, Sam Berger checking herself into a psychiatric ward. At 13 alone, at 12 with an adult.
readingA headbutt on live TV, and bloodIt all starts with a player headbutting his coach in front of the cameras, and a racial slur shouted on a loop on every channel. Blood sits at the center of the image for about twenty seconds in the first episode, in one stretch; after that the violence is in words.
A hatred that rises every episodeA far-right influencer, a player turned into a target, humiliating police checks, a TV show promising 'thugs' and 'crack zombies', a rally for gun rights, and a president asking whether the civil war has already begun. Nothing is shown, everything is said, and it is designed to frighten.
A heroine who checks herself into a psychiatric wardSam, the communicator, no longer sleeps, shakes, and ends up asking for a room at the psychiatric hospital herself. Her distress runs through the season, with insomnia, breakdowns and a child she rarely sees.
A school shooting told by a survivorIn the last episode, a young American lists, one by one, the classmates killed at her school five years earlier. Nothing is shown, each first name lands like a blow.
Locker-room and TV-studio languageThe French equivalents of fuck and shit in every episode, about twenty swear words in the heaviest one, insults live on air. People drink and smoke in offices and at parties.
Nights, fires and shoutingHalf the images are dark, episode endings build tension, cars burn, and a crowd is heard roaring more often than a match.
What the series brings
- How a controversy becomes a war: the media machine filmed from the inside, news channel, social networks, PR agency, all the way to the Élysée.
- The words that light the fire: a lesson in rhetoric from a formidable opponent, and what it costs to answer her.
- A woman who stays standing: Sam Berger, brilliant and broken, who refuses to let fear win.
Watching it together
BeforeA series for older teenagers who follow the news: stop on what the influencer does with words, it is a live lesson in manipulation, and on the Overton window explained in episode 4. The survivor in the last episode deserves a silence afterwards.
Afterat 13 and up
Why can a sentence said on television do more damage than a headbutt?
Season by season
the reading per season, episode by episode · expand
Season 1 · 6 episodes, 54 min on average · zinema reading 12, 11 with a parent · France 12
1 episode out of 6 at the top of the series. What's in each episode, without telling the story:
| Episode | What's in it |
|---|
| 1 · Box to Box | Many dark scenes; blood, for a long time on screen; deaths told; frightening images; scary music; bullying; some swearing; alcohol. |
| 2 · Poison | Deaths told; frightening images; scary music; fights; drugs mentioned. |
| 3 · The World of Yesterday | Deaths told; scary music; fights; bullying; some swearing; alcohol. |
| 4 · Overton | Many dark scenes; deaths told; frightening images; lots of weapons; a lot of swearing; drugs mentioned. |
| 5 · Kill Bill | Deaths told; frightening images; lots of weapons; bullying; some swearing. |
| 6 · The Other Assembly | Deaths told; frightening images; lots of weapons; some swearing. |
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A zinema reading from September 13, 2026 · the 6 episodes of season 1, watched one by one · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made