# Empathie (2025)

> A former criminologist turned psychiatrist finds a fragile friendship and a web of troubled patients at a Montreal maximum-security psychiatric institute.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/190527

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 42 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Florence Longpré
- Network: Crave
- Cast: Florence Longpré, Thomas Ngijol, Adrien Bletton, Benoît Brière, Geneviève Alarie, Lamia Benhacine, Lyraël Dauphin, Josée Deschênes
- TMDB rating: 8.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32827662/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Tone: intimate, contemplative, tense, sincere, melancholic

## Synopsis

Empathie (2025) is a Canadian French-language drama series created by Florence Longpré for Crave. Longpré also stars as Suzanne Bien-Aimé, a former criminologist who reinvents herself as a psychiatrist and joins the staff of the Mont-Royal Psychiatric Institute, a maximum-security institution in Montreal. Her engine is the difficult work of reaching patients who have committed serious harm while she tries to keep her own emotional wounds from spilling into the clinic. Thomas Ngijol plays Mortimer Vallant, an intriguing intervention officer whose friendship with Suzanne becomes the series' warmest and most unsettling thread, and Adrien Bletton plays Émilien Delcourt, a fellow clinician whose presence adds further institutional tension. Benoît Brière appears as Jacques Dallaire, rounding out a principal cast that moves between the institute's wards, offices and the city outside. The show runs as a single ten-episode season of about forty-two minutes each, built around case encounters with fascinating patients that gradually expose the characters' pasts. Its tone is intimate, contemplative and emotionally direct, with an atmosphere of quiet dread and careful humanity rather than melodrama. Fans of In Treatment and Mindhunter will find resonance in its close study of the mind, its clinical settings and its ethical unease, while francophone viewers will appreciate its grounded Quebec sensibility.

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