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Published 10:00 2 Nov 2024 GMT
Updated 16:03 2 Nov 2024 GMT

The Night Logan Woke Up, the excellent Canadian mystery drama miniseries, has finally been made available to watch in the UK.
Streaming now through the Studiocanal Presents service, the French-language show tells the story of the Quebec-based family the Larouches, whose estranged adult siblings are reunited in the wake of the death of their mother (Anne Dorval).
The matriarch's passing brings memories of a long-buried secret that has haunted the three brothers and their sister (Julie Le Breton) for decades in different ways to the surface.
This secret relates to an event that occurred in 1991 which involved the Larouches' teenage neighbour Logan Goodyear (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie).
Over the course of the series' five hour-long episodes that flash backwards and forwards through time, we slowly come to learn what happened on that fateful night, the night that Logan woke up.
Written and directed in its entirety by acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways, Mommy), the show is based on a play by Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom at the Farm) and features a score by Hans Zimmer (Dune, Inception).
And having watched all five episodes, JOE is happy to report that The Night Logan Woke Up lives up to the promise that is made when so many talented people are involved with a project.
Featuring brilliant performances, compelling fully rounded characters, a great soundtrack and typically stylish direction from Dolan (who also stars in the show as one of the brothers) that constantly finds inventive ways of linking the past and the present - there is plenty to keep viewers compelled through each chapter of the story.
And while the mystery part of the series is a bit of a slow burn - being parsed out little by little over five hours - this plot line does eventually reach fever pitch in the final two episodes - before culminating in a satisfying, highly emotional finale.
The Night Logan Woke Up was first released in Canada back in 2022. And though it eventually landed on Netflix in the States, it was not available in the UK and Ireland until now.
Thankfully, streaming service Studiocanal Presents - which is available via Apple TV in the UK - has finally given it a release on this side of the pond.

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