I promise: Why is Season 3 different from us?

Warning, this article contains many spoilers for the series, we promise, and it’s us. If you don’t want to understand anything, don’t read!

The adventures of the Gallo family come to a close tonight with the final two episodes of Season 3 on TF1 I promise!

Directed by Camille Lou, Hugo Becker, Guillaume Labbe, Marilou Berry and Narcisse’s father, the French adaptation of This is Us continued to explore the history of the Gallo family through the turbulence experienced by each of its members. What to offer us once again moments rich in emotions.

Always true to the original version, we promise to take Maude, Mathis and Michael on another adventure as exciting as it is exciting.

If the similarities to This is Us have always been obvious, fans of the first hour will definitely notice that The Promise Season 3 is certainly the most distinguished from its big sister. Indeed, this new burst of episodes frees Pearson’s destiny to follow his own path more than usual.

True, the plot of the series has always been guided by the desire to strengthen the Gallo family in the culture and history of our country, while satisfying the obvious needs of adaptation. But this time, without being radical, the changes were deeper.

However, initially, the desire was to take this direction closer to us, as we saw it during the first two seasons. This was without taking into account the accumulation of obstacles, which brought great trouble to the production.

But then, why is Season 3 of The Promise so different from This Is Us?

short season

I promise Season 3 was the subject of many compromises, as revealed by our colleagues Parisian. If the first two seasons had 12 episodes, the third part of the Gallo family’s adventures has only 8.

Reason ? I promise is a series that “It is expensive and broadcasting at 6 pm is a big risk“. It must be said that with the ever-increasing offer of PAF on various channels, the trend is towards shorter programs. Therefore, the French adaptation of This Is Us will not escape this rule.

According to Anne Viau, TF1 Group Artistic Director of Fiction, “This allows for a more classic narrative and distribution pattern that is more suited to our standards (6 to 8 episodes per season).“.

Bridget Bemol and Julien Simone, I promise, the screenwriters have already written 12 episodes of the season. With this new goal in mind, they had to rewrite the script in just three months. Despite this reduced format, “Emotions come out more For series producer, Allyn Pannell.

and indicate in the columns Entertainment television“This allowed us to strengthen the connection between the past and the present. We managed to faithfully follow season 3 of the American version by focusing on the fate of the family and sacrificing some secondary characters.“.

However, this is not the only sacrifice that the production had to make.

A different treatment of war

During This Is Us Season 3, the showrunners revealed an unknown part of Jack Pearson’s (Milo Ventimiglia) youth. An opportunity to return to the character’s military past during the Vietnam War and his relationship with his brother Nick.

Paul, his French counterpart, at the same time started the war in Algeria. However, those years on the front line barely touched the screen. judged”Not big and very anxiety provokingThese scenes were eventually scrapped by TF1 and the writers focused on Paul and Alexander’s escape.

“The Algerian War took place ten years before the war in which the United States intervened in Vietnam, and it is still taboo in France. The main thing was to maintain Michael’s quest to solve the mystery of his father. This is what we talked about with the Americans, because the contract requires an agreement with themAline Panel explained before adding,We had a discussion with TF1 and said that what would remind the public of this era more would be the 1960s, the hippie movement, rather than the Algerian War.“.

No political dimension

In This Is Us Season 3, Randall (Sterling K. Brown) went into politics to improve the quality of life in his town, which is not the case with Mathis. Here, son Galo instead meets Emil (Adil Dehbi), a promising young navigator whom he takes under his wing to give him a second chance at life, even if it puts his partner in danger.

This bias results from TF1’s observation that the policy was “A topic that is not very pleasant for the audience”. For the Aline panel, “Small-town local elections have nothing to do with Philadelphia, and we don’t have Barack Obama … There was less resonance, and that line would have been modeled for nothing.“.

The final episode that sounds like the end

For fans of the American program, the last episode of the 3rd season of This us had a special resonance. After a season full of twists and turns, we’re thus thrown into the future with new mysteries to solve, leaving many on a cliffhanger that might spark intense anticipation for answers to our questions.

We promise not to reveal anything until the end, but we can say that the French series once again stood out from its big sister with the last episode, which looks a bit like the end. If it doesn’t close anything in the end, it doesn’t hold the suspension either. Hence, it is an open conclusion that could lead to either a season 4 or the final ending of the series.