Un Si Grand Soleil: Why is back to school on August 24 in the France 2 series?

For the teenagers of Un Si Grand Soleil, the time for the new school year has strangely arrived.

Although the arson plot in the real estate area has just ended and the couples Akim-Noem and Margot-Ludo ended in loss and collapse, the France 2 series is moving on to a new major narrative arc. Centered on the traffic of Montpellier, Buddha Blue, a drug that will gradually spread through the school.

For the purposes of this story, Kira (Colin Ramos-Pinto), Thais (Lila Guiraud), Louis (Sylvain Bocara), as well as Tom (Mateo Paitelli) and Achill (Mathieu Rodríguez), who are second and will be first. Concerned about this drug trade, go back to school this Thursday, August 24, in the France 2 episode.

Back to school from the start of the school year will be a little earlier than the current calendar in metropolitan France, actually on Monday, September 4th.

So why this “error” and this difference of about ten days from reality? Contacted by France 2, we explained that the Un Si Grand Soleil calendar is not based on everyday life, unlike Tomorrow belongs to us and that’s where everything starts. Led by Melanie Maudran and Moise Santamaria, soap opera storylines generally only mention Christmas and New Year.

If we can assume that the primetime airing of six episodes of Un Si Grand Soleil on July 5th may have caused an advance in the series’ broadcast schedule, perhaps to anticipate possible deprogramming due to current events (as is unfortunately often the case with the La Deux series), This is not so.

Therefore, fans of Un Si Grand Soleil must admit that the characters of their favorite series live in a fictional parallel world that resembles reality and the daily life of all French people, with a few exceptions. And in which summer vacation ends a little early for Montpelier High School students.