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Mère et Mensonges
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Mère et Mensonges actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Mère et Mensonges reads strongest on Serialized, Emotional Weight and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
When Aminata returns to Dakar, her presence reopens old wounds and unsettles lives that seemed carefully rebuilt. Between love, jealousy, and unspoken betrayals, marriages are tested and loyalties begin to crack. As secrets surface and desires clash, the line between truth and lies becomes dangerously thin. Motherhood, power, and obsession collide in a story where every choice has consequences.
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