Call My Agent! Season 1 Netflix Series

Call My Agent! (2016-)
Season 1 - 6 episodes (2016)

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Created by: Fanny Herrero
Starring: Camille Cottin, Thibault de Montalembert, Gregory Montel
Rated: TV-MA

Plot
This six episode French mini-series centers around talent agents and their movie star clients. The Netflix press release lists this as Ten Percent, but the Netflix site lists it as Call My Agent! The French title translates to Ten Percent. The agents get 10% of the actor's pay.

Verdict
I found this incredibly boring. It doesn't help that I wanted this to be Entourage, focusing on over the top antics of Hollywood's biggest stars. Instead, this is an office drama. It lacks humor and emotion, failing to capitalize on the premise. This might as well be set at any office. I struggled to maintain any amount of interest. 
Skip it.

Review
This is a less fun French Entourage (read my review). Entourage focused directly on the movie and later television world. We got a behind the scenes look at what happens and tensions between stars. Call My Agent! is a once removed look at that world. I'm sure if I was more familiar with French movies I'd recognize more names, as this does feature cameos from legitimate movie stars. We do get a mention of a Tarantino movie when Cécile De France doesn't get the part despite horse and English lessons. She plays herself.

Agents Arlette, Mathias, Andréa, Gabriel

This series shows us a talent agency, providing perspectives from the agents like Mathias and Gabriel and also from the assistant Camille who has a mysterious past with Mathias. Camille becomes involved with Mathias's son who is also an actor which leads to revealing Mathias and Camille's relationship. Chances are you will have already guessed the answer.

I don't know if it's the timing, the culture, or some other inexplicable reason, but I just couldn't pay attention to this. It's not bad, but it's everything Entourage is not, which is a problem. Entourage ruined this show for me as I wanted something that traces the line between reality and parody. I'm going to attribute this to a culture difference. With a second watch, I'd probably enjoy this more, but it's too much of an office drama when movie stars play such a big part in the plot.