She faked cancer for attention. He still didn't notice. French family dysfunction at its finest.
10.058 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
LatestThe sect makes a demand of Carole. Renan extends an invitation to Sam. Elvira confesses to Patrick the rest of the truth about Lorenzo's origins.
Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
Acting
Marina Hands makes Elvira unbearably real
Writing
Berest's script cuts like a surgeon
Direction
Tight control of cringe-to-empathy balance
Creator
Anne Berest
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Berest adapted her own novel, part of a wave of French female creators exploring 'unlikable' women on screen.
The show's title refers to mythomania—compulsive lying as pathology—yet frames Elvira's deception as systemic, not individual.
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