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blog dedicated to "a very secret service"/"au service de la france" bc we need a fandom

[dis-astre]

Ok let’s talk about cinema patterns and my favourite gays spies at the moment

i KNOW i talk about “Au Service de la France”/”A Very Secret Service” a lot. And i know that Moulinier and Jacquard are NOT canonically in a relationship or lovers or gay or whatev. But i can’t help it but notice some moments that just… bug and interpellate me. (also if that can motivate you to watch the show then i will happily go on and on about it)

It’s going to be a long post so BUCKLE UP ! (please read it i need friends)

What i want to talk about is the motif, the pattern, of the cigarette in films and how it’s used in  “Au Service de la France”/“A Very Secret Service”.

Afficher davantage

[averygayservice]

just noticed that mercaillon quotes pierre drieu la rochelle at the end of season one and that's such a clever little detail bc drieu la rochelle was a pretty well known collaborationist and a fascist

like

crazy no one clocked that at that moment tbh

[thekingofspies]

pov you see Bruno Paviot (Moulinier's actor) in any other media

[averygayservice]

we have very few actors in france i guess

[averygayservice]

i've managed to convince a friend to watch a very secret service and his reactions are killing me

he's currently convinced calot is a double agent and is probably not ready for the disappointment that this man is as incapable as the others

[averygayservice]

oh no.......

[averygayservice]

i've managed to convince a friend to watch a very secret service and his reactions are killing me

he's currently convinced calot is a double agent and is probably not ready for the disappointment that this man is as incapable as the others

[thekingofspies]

Hi !

There's a new ASDLF fanfic, with a ship i would never thought i'd see 👀👀👀 go check it out, it's REALLY great !

(It's in french, tho, but so are my fics)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[suppenzeit]

i promise ill draw something better but heres calot dressing appropriately for north african weather

[suppenzeit]

boring sketches to figure these guys out

[thekingofspies]

So it's been like two months now, but I made my presentation of Au Service de la France in front of my whole english class.

And it went GREAT.

First @averygayservice woke up early to sneak into my class and listen to my presentation ty so much love

I made a perfect powerpoint with all the "main" characters, and finished on "the chaotic trio" and why they're my favorite ever

Everyone was really into it they LIKED IT like omg

The propaganda is working

[thekingofspies]

Prof: How did you discovered the show

Me:

Me: *look at @averygayservice*

Me: Her. She begged me to watch it.

[averygayservice]

literally me at that moment

[thekingofspies]

So we're in the same major/class with @averygayservice and our ultimate goal seems to be making everyone watch Au Service De La France

They send their password and account Arte to like all our friends and I mention ASDLF every so often to manipulate them into watching so they can understand what we're saying

It's fun.

[averygayservice]

hence this conversation

friend 1: what is a very secret servive

friend 2: you should never have said that

@thekingofspies : i'm sorry for you

me: *is about to rent about the show non-stop*

[thekingofspies]

Me: Moulinier is babygirl

@averygayservice : Winnie is babygirl ?????

[averygayservice]

WINNIE???????

[guimauvewithcrumbs]

Marie-Jo, c'est tout

[averygayservice]

La reine🙏

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

a few years ago i watched this french spy show on netflix (i don't think it's there anymore) called a very secret service. i generally enjoyed it alright but it contains a truly baffling subplot that still haunts me to this day.

basically what you need to know is a) the main character andré's father has been missing or presumed dead or something since before he was born and all he has left of him is a picture of his military unit; b) andré's boss served in the military with the missing dad, meaning he's also in that picture; c) andré is dating the boss' daughter but the boss wants them to break up, and so d) the boss tells andré that he's the aforementioned missing dad, hoping that his daughter and andré will break up on account of the (presumed) incest.

which would be fine, if a little convoluted, except that they had the actor who plays andré pose as his dad in this plot significant photograph so like. did they forget? are we supposed to assume andré has face blindness? are they playing 4d comedy chess where they seem to play this plot straight but we, the audience, are supposed to recognize that it's ridiculous that andré believes his boss might actually be his dad when he looks literally identical to his actual dad?

[thekingofspies]

I CAN RESPOND TO THAT !

The fact that Mercaillon (André's boss) tells him that he's his missing father is 1) a reference to Star Wars (at least that's how I understood it) 2) supposed to make us be like "wait, but his father looks exactly like him, what ???"

In A Very Secret Service, the characters are dumb. It's shown with our dear Holy Trinity (Calot, Jacquard and Moulinier) but also with everybody else - especially Merlaux. In s2, Merlaux tries to be the cliché badass spy, in a James Bond way kinda, but fails miserably (his plan to infiltrate the KGB doesn't work as well as he thought, Marie-Jo saves him multiple time when he's supposed to be the one to save the girl, etc). I think the fact that he truly believes that Mercaillon is his father while it's clear he's not is meant to show us (beside the obvious comedy) that Merlaux is not different; he is like his colleagues, dumb and oblivious to everything.

So basically yea it's for comedy but also to show us that André is really, really dumb.

[averygayservice]

yea it's pretty much just a comedy bit, mercaillon says it to save is life and merlaux is dumb and also too taken aback to rlly think it through

and that's also why when he ask his adoptive father if mercaillon is his dad his adoptive father is like "wtf are u on my dude obviously he is not"

also i'm pretty sure merlaux sees the picture after mercaillon tells him oh im ur dad

[yuwhala]

[bluisp-deactivated20250611]

sometimes ill think of a very secret service and then get sad

[thekingofspies]

Moulinier: Is stabbing someone immoral ?

Calot: Not if they consent to it.

Jacquard: Depends who you’re stabbing.

Merlaux: YES ?????

[suppenzeit]

the gang goes to the eastern bloc

[thekingofspies]

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