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Cheeky Business
3615 Monique
2020 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud, Armand Robin
1980. The Videotex messaging service arrives in France. From the depths of their Parisian suburbs, Simon, Toni and Stéphanie, three students, will seize this technological innovation and challenge their enmity to draw a revolutionary idea: the first erotic chat service.
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I’m guessing a few here have already come across the streaming show “3615 Monique” also called “Cheeky Business” that tells the story of a few college students in France who launched a sex chat on the Minitel. The show captures the vibe of the time and highlights tech related issues many of which have stayed with us as the internet has grown.
> In the France of the early 1980s, still marked by the Giscard years, Simon, Tony and Stéphanie embody a new generation ready to do anything to appropriate this new decade without knowing in concrete terms what they are going to be able to do with their lives. From the depths of their suburbs, their revolutionary idea will contribute to the sexual disinhibition of an entire country. 3615 MONIQUE is the story of the collaboration of these three students who, despite their enmity, will do everything to realize their crazy project and reveal it to the world. Little by little, without their realizing it, this collaboration will transform into a fragile friendship - made of passion, lies, betrayals and sex.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13462310/plotsummary
In Australia the show is currently available on Binge as Cheeky Business.
A TV show revolving around this exact period titled « 3615 Monique » (« Cheeky Business » in English) was released in 2020. A kind of french « Social Network » in some way, pretty cool
For all the french nerds on HN, there is a pretty nice TV show called « 3615 Monique ». The directing is heavily inspired by « The Social Network » but a bit more goofy at times. Of course, the whole plot is about students bootstrapping their own « pink » service…